Baalzamon said:
Define software company. Because Microsoft has made multiple pieces of hardware, including all of the Xbox iterations, all of the Zune iterations, all of the Surface iterations, lots of add-ons such as mouses, keyboards, etc. Now that Microsoft owns the phone division of Nokia, you could argue that Nokia phones are in their lineup as well. I think they have proven quite well through past releases that they are more than capable of releasing hardware alongside software. |
They started as a software company and still make porbably over 75% of their revenue in software, they are a software company at heart. And I've not said that they haven't released hardware before, but Sony has been releasing electronics since the 50s, they have some serious know-how in engineering of consumer electronics (something they often don't have in management, unfortunately), and that is shown in this case.
