Is the big tech era ending?

Re:Is the big tech era ending? by EB66 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @04:07PM (#29444319)

People are buying it... so much so that Framework has been struggling to keep up with the demand. All of their early batches sold out well in advance. I placed my order two months ago and it was backordered for a month. Batch 6 (the current batch) is the first batch they've had all year where they haven't been massively backordered.

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Re:Is the big tech era ending? by dash2 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:52PM (#29445049)

I'm glad, but Apple ships millions of Macs every quarter. When Framework catch up, then I'll agree they're better and not niche. Of course as a hacker I might prefer Framework, believe it is better, even evangelize it. That's a different use of the word, though.

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Re:Is the big tech era ending? by jlokier on Saturday December 04, 2021 @06:41PM (#29445355)

The original question was whether a small company can make a better device than a very large company.

Here you've defined "better" to include "can ship very large quantities", which is almost a circular way of defining the answer to be negative, no matter what the company does.

If it can ship very large quantities, it's not a small company.

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Re:Is the big tech era ending? by dash2 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:40AM (#29447768)

Indeed, my original point was that there are huge economies of scale in design. That's why it would be a bad idea for everything to be small-scale and local, which the GP was arguing for.

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