> You’re not paying for the bill of material.
They’ve added more material (and cost) with the foam, and to make the product worse.
A cheaper iPhone isn’t usually a crippled high end model.
They’ve added more material (and cost) with the foam, and to make the product worse.
A cheaper iPhone isn’t usually a crippled high end model.
And specifically in Apple's case they do spend more money doing stuff like soldering ram to the motherboard so customers can't upgrade them.
The soldered disk on the other hand... fuck that
It’s one of those happy times when everyone is right.
Doesn't soldering RAM to the motherboard cost less?
The downside is a lack of flexibility, because you are now committed to a very specific RAM chip and you need to spend effort if you ever need to change that - rather than just plugging in one of a dozen modules.
The general strategy is to make everything with the same die, and then bin the output based on manufacturing quality, defects, etc.
Quite often, the manufacturing is too good, and therefore perfectly capable hardware is feature-limited in order to fill the lower end product lines.