Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
by Someone on Sunday June 17, 2012 @02:28AM
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"If a manufacturer could out do the iPhone 4, iPad or MBP screen, they would have. Especially since they are traditionally spec driven."
I think a major reason other manufacturers haven't done this may be that they ship Windows boxes. My logic for that is as follows:
- There are manufacturers that ship numbers of their high-end laptops that are in the same order as the number of MacBook Pro's that Apple ships.
- Apple, by supplying only one form factor, reaps economies of scale.
- That form factor may be suboptimal for some, but it is what they will have to buy if they want to run Mac OS.
- If other manufacturers tried the same, they would lose sales to other parties that do provide machines with different feature sets that also run Windows.
On the other hand, I do not know whether it is that more expensive to have a single high-DPI line crank out multiple sizes of display. If it is not, it all boils down to balls. Other manufacturers may be spec driven, but they do that by buying the best the market has to offer. Apple, on the other hand, is willing (and able) to tell the market what it wants, and put money on the table up-front for it.
I think a major reason other manufacturers haven't done this may be that they ship Windows boxes. My logic for that is as follows:
- There are manufacturers that ship numbers of their high-end laptops that are in the same order as the number of MacBook Pro's that Apple ships.
- Apple, by supplying only one form factor, reaps economies of scale.
- That form factor may be suboptimal for some, but it is what they will have to buy if they want to run Mac OS.
- If other manufacturers tried the same, they would lose sales to other parties that do provide machines with different feature sets that also run Windows.
On the other hand, I do not know whether it is that more expensive to have a single high-DPI line crank out multiple sizes of display. If it is not, it all boils down to balls. Other manufacturers may be spec driven, but they do that by buying the best the market has to offer. Apple, on the other hand, is willing (and able) to tell the market what it wants, and put money on the table up-front for it.