I see things like 'moocow01: free duplication isn't the same thing as it costing $0 to manufacture software. Software is "manufactured" almost exclusively on a one-off basis.

However, there are still similarities. New languages, frameworks, tools, etc, basically do the same thing to software as the $35 tablet represents in hardware. There are a lot of new tools in the past five or ten years that will let you quickly create something that's now seen as basic, but would've taken much more work to duplicate in the past.