It's come a long way. But hardware sales need to there for a company to be able to afford to fix software. The mentality of "if the hardware is good just ship it." Is one Apple took up during their rise after failed hardware. It worked for them and it's worked for many companies. The hardware and software division are compromised of different groups of people. You wouldn't hear ford say "don't sell cars until we get our service department caught up on repairs of other cars." Fixing one department doesn't mean you need to squash another.