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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by blhack on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:25PM (#19517259)
Batteries which are soldered to the board instead of using a connector, motherboard is all one assembly including the keyboard, fewer ports, nothing user serviceable. That all seems like measures to make manufacturing easier from my perspective.
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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by JetSpiegel on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:31PM (#19518390)
How is soldering components simpler than using connectors? It's more expensive for diminishing returns.
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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by craftyguy on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:42PM (#19518440)
Connectors are also soldered as well and they add to the BOM costs.
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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:02AM (#19520109)
Sure, it gives them both the benefit of optimized manufacturing and the benefit from screwing the customers.

It's not a law of nature that making things better for yourself will make them better for your customers. In fact, the opposite is usually true.

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