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It will fail because building laptops isn't a profitable business as you think. The margins kind of sucks and the equipment in order to make it is very expensi
by thiago_fm 8y ago
It will fail because building laptops isn't a profitable business as you think.
The margins kind of sucks and the equipment in order to make it is very expensive. I don't believe Dell or those companies that make it, make the whole thing. They generally don't even assembly it. It makes no f. sense as companies are able to work in limited scope, otherwise they start to become very ineffective.
Companies that make money with it probably make it due to having a large scale and being able to negotiate a good price for the hardware it gets in.
If I would try to do so something, I would try to understand well the business and see what makes it expensive. For example, is it physically feasible to make the bodies cheaper in a 10x scale? If yes, then maybe open a company that sells only that part that you figured out and after you try to get into that market.
It's a very, very, very tough market. If you think it is a good business, buy those companies stock. I wouldn't though.
- butimnotarapper 8y agoDo the margins really suck on a $6000 Macbook Pro? I have a strong feeling there's a significant margin on these laptops, even the $2400 Macbook Pro.
- notahacker 8y agoThe OP isn't Apple. They're competing with sub $1k laptops made by reputable manufacturers who spread their branding and marketing costs across a lot more products, probably by trying to offer higher-value internal components which must be acquired without access to the larger manufacturers' low cost supply chain and bulk discounts.