Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by rainsford on Sunday August 07, 2016 @06:55PM
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There's nothing wrong with 4 year old computers. They are fast enough for many tasks and have some life left in them. The issue is that Apple is pricing them and marketing them as brand new computers. It's true that people are keeping computers longer than they used to, but that doesn't change the fact that Apple is asking new computer money for something that's way more than 50% of the way through its useful life. Anybody trying to sell a 2012 car for the same price as a new car would be laughed out of town, and cars still last quite a bit longer than computers.
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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by Sophistifunk on Sunday August 07, 2016 @07:10PM
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Car companies do exactly this! Sometimes they might make slight changes to things like bumpers or lights for fashion's sense, but go down to a Mitsubishi dealership - They're still selling the Lancer that's almost 10 years old. A 2012 car isn't cheap because it's behind in technology, it's cheap because somebody else has driven it around for 4 years.
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by OJFord on Monday August 08, 2016 @12:59AM
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It's not quite the same with cars though - (and maybe this won't be true going forward, but) there's not really significant savings for the manufacturer in the technology getting cheaper over the years, sure it's cheaper due to scale and as they recover the initial cost of setting up for production - but a lot of the raw components in a laptop just get cheaper.