Device Manufacturing Quotes

I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

We're about getting all the people who want to compete with Samsung to be able to build devices. So we're kind of down at the guts level saying, 'Hey, we can give you the hardware, the sensor platform, the software you need to go build your own one.'

When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.