<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;And even Apple is a pretty mediocre software company, compared to the others of their class.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sounds</author><text>I think by 2021 most people will understand this simple reality:&lt;p&gt;Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.&lt;p&gt;Yes, they write software. It is universally garbage. If there is anything well-done about the software, it will be because the hardware company licensed (or more likely, just ripped off) someone else&amp;#x27;s software.&lt;p&gt;Google (a software company) cannot make any of the hardware companies in the Android ecosystem produce anything but garbage. Samsung Bixby anybody?&lt;p&gt;And this should not surprise anyone, as the leadership at a hardware company does not care, at all, about the software. Once you plunked down your coins and bought the hardware, the leadership at the company only sees software as an endless cost center. They want you gone as fast as possible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a classic race to the bottom, and this is the result.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also one of the most potent forces driving people to use OpenRGB and every other free&amp;#x2F;libre open source tool.</text></item><item><author>otter-in-a-suit</author><text>The state of RGB is such a nightmare, and I am very glad OpenRGB exists.&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to control all LEDs on my relatively new &amp;quot;Gaming&amp;quot; PC (Windows 10), I&amp;#x27;d normally need software from Gigabyte for the GPU (which straight up doesn&amp;#x27;t work [0]), Ducky for the keyboard, a no-name Corsair knockoff software where the name escapes me for the mouse, actual Corsair software for the fans, and NZXT for the AIO.&lt;p&gt;All of them are not only proprietary, they also use a ton of resources and often times cannot be run in parallel, presumably because they try to talk to the same devices (but never all of them!) - analog to an I2C device that only allows one process to access it at a time. Difference being, there is nothing stopping me from trying - everything will just freeze.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fascinating - for something as simple as a bunch of LEDs, these companies must have spent millions of developer hours to produce such heaping piles of garbage - and OpenRGB proves all of them wrong.&lt;p&gt;[0] If anyone knows of a way to control at least the LED backlight on a Gigabyte Auorus XTREME 3080 (ideally the little LCD as well) - please let me know - OpenRGB can&amp;#x27;t do it. The Gigabyte software is so unbelievably broken that it doesn&amp;#x27;t even recognize the GPU, and I feel like I&amp;#x27;ve tried every workaround under the sun. I am unfortunately not very well versed in the Windows world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.org/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aardwolf</author><text>They don&amp;#x27;t need to be software companies, but instead use a simple open protocol for this so that anyone can write software for it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sounds</author><text>I think by 2021 most people will understand this simple reality:&lt;p&gt;Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.&lt;p&gt;Yes, they write software. It is universally garbage. If there is anything well-done about the software, it will be because the hardware company licensed (or more likely, just ripped off) someone else&amp;#x27;s software.&lt;p&gt;Google (a software company) cannot make any of the hardware companies in the Android ecosystem produce anything but garbage. Samsung Bixby anybody?&lt;p&gt;And this should not surprise anyone, as the leadership at a hardware company does not care, at all, about the software. Once you plunked down your coins and bought the hardware, the leadership at the company only sees software as an endless cost center. They want you gone as fast as possible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a classic race to the bottom, and this is the result.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also one of the most potent forces driving people to use OpenRGB and every other free&amp;#x2F;libre open source tool.</text></item><item><author>otter-in-a-suit</author><text>The state of RGB is such a nightmare, and I am very glad OpenRGB exists.&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to control all LEDs on my relatively new &amp;quot;Gaming&amp;quot; PC (Windows 10), I&amp;#x27;d normally need software from Gigabyte for the GPU (which straight up doesn&amp;#x27;t work [0]), Ducky for the keyboard, a no-name Corsair knockoff software where the name escapes me for the mouse, actual Corsair software for the fans, and NZXT for the AIO.&lt;p&gt;All of them are not only proprietary, they also use a ton of resources and often times cannot be run in parallel, presumably because they try to talk to the same devices (but never all of them!) - analog to an I2C device that only allows one process to access it at a time. Difference being, there is nothing stopping me from trying - everything will just freeze.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fascinating - for something as simple as a bunch of LEDs, these companies must have spent millions of developer hours to produce such heaping piles of garbage - and OpenRGB proves all of them wrong.&lt;p&gt;[0] If anyone knows of a way to control at least the LED backlight on a Gigabyte Auorus XTREME 3080 (ideally the little LCD as well) - please let me know - OpenRGB can&amp;#x27;t do it. The Gigabyte software is so unbelievably broken that it doesn&amp;#x27;t even recognize the GPU, and I feel like I&amp;#x27;ve tried every workaround under the sun. I am unfortunately not very well versed in the Windows world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.org/</url></story>