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ethagknightyesterday at 10:40 PM1 replyview on HN

Is this one of those cases where Apple didn’t invented, but they did crash the price per unit?


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zerobeesyesterday at 10:44 PM

No. There was no "unit". This was before the days of modular PC PSUs and switching wall warts (which started proliferating only later). So it was just a custom circuit that used commodity components. For these components, the volume of orders from Apple would have been tiny compared to overall market demand.