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Apple saves a lot of money by pre-buying things like flash in massive quantity. It will drop millions all at once to ensure that it gets better prices than anyo
by danudey 16y ago
Apple saves a lot of money by pre-buying things like flash in massive quantity. It will drop millions all at once to ensure that it gets better prices than anyone else can get from it's suppliers, which helps keep costs low.
- joezydeco 16y agoIt's not just contracts on pricing that Apple is dominating, it's the actual production capacity of the chip makers. "Digitimes reported Wednesday that Apple recently placed an order of 50 million 8Gb flash chips that it plans to use for that iPhone thing you might have heard about, and therefore the rest of Samsung's customers will have to wait for their chips." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9983117-37.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9983117-37.html So if you're scrounging for NAND on the open market, you're gonna get screwed on price. It's not just Moto that's feeling the pressure.