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$50-70 to switch to USB-C? That seems like a pretty healthy exaggeration.
by jsight 8y ago
$50-70 to switch to USB-C? That seems like a pretty healthy exaggeration.
- leadingthenet 8y agoHow the hell are you being downvoted for this?! Have people gone insane?
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoNo, people are reading the original comment about how switching to USB-C would require all-new tooling for the production line for the Mini, because it's not as simple as "just swap out the Lightning port for a USB-C port and keep everything else identical so no extra manufacturing cost whatsoever." The assertion being made isn't that the USB-C port costs $50. It's that switching to USB-C would require up-front investment that keeping the Lightning port -- which is also still being used in all of Apple's phones and all of the other "non-Pro" iPads -- doesn't.
- jsight 8y agoRight, the cost is up-front fixed costs. So if they sell 10 million iPad Minis, then the estimated cost was $500-700 million? Doesn't that seem a bit implausible?