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Comment by Kequc | Hacker News Reader

That's great, Apple can stop charging thousands of dollars for them.

Apple charged multiples of the market price when they were installing user upgrade able consumer grade 2.5” HDDs into their laptops, this won’t stop them.

I hate the fact that in the year of our lord 2020, Apple is still selling new iMacs with HDD, and to add insult to injury, charges an arm and a leg to upgrade to SSD. SSD should not be an upgrade in 2020. It should be the base level default. If they want to allow upgrading to Optane or something else, fine; but not SSD. Apple is so behind I feel like a parody twitter account similar to Internet Explorer one is in order.

Apple products are not just worth the sum of their components, they are an “experience” unto themselves.

I type that both sarcastically and with complete sincerity. Apple is vertically integrated, which puts their products in a different class than Intel/Windows, ARM/Android. If you’re an Apple user you’re not worried necessarily about the CPU or memory, your concern is whether you can run the Mac OS or iOS and the ecosystem that goes with it. So Apple doesn’t have to compete on price for its hardware, but rather on other intangibles.

Agreed. I’m just pointing out that the price that Apple charged and the underlying price of the components is poorly correlated. Apple will charge what you’ll pay, not what it costs to produce.

That's true of everybody who's passed econ-101, of course.

Apple charges for value, not for cost.

They charge what the market will bear, and no less.

Like everybody else?

Nah. On the “Wintel” side there are more competitors and some of them compete on price to an extent that Apple does not. E.g. Asus and Acer.

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