[hashpipe]

From the VB article - "The truth is that if your company sells hardware today, your business model is essentially over". And you are comparing a complete product with only hardware / software.

I agree with you when you say "Its all about the product", and even the VB author does ("No one can make money selling hardware anymore. The only way to make money with hardware is to sell something else and get consumers to pay for the whole device and experience"). That term "experience" encapsulates a lot of what you talk about in your article.

Both, the VB author and you actually talk about the same thing. You somehow dont see it that way.

[DavidZhangToGo]

Yes and no. The VB article talks about hardware as if Shenzhen engineered everything. In the end, they're just some manufacture copying TI or Qualcomm's reference designs. It's quite sensationalist I think.

[hashpipe]

Yeah the heading might have been a bit sensationalist, but underneath everybody was logical & made sense. His main idea that hardware-only businesses are dead is right to the point (and so are you in saying that software alone is dead). Its all about integrating everything/anything for that perfect product.