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With all due respect your responses are incredibly condescending. I believe my point stands. If you disagree, I suggest that you propose a concrete model which
by skohan 6y ago
With all due respect your responses are incredibly condescending. I believe my point stands. If you disagree, I suggest that you propose a concrete model which would refute my thesis. I don’t know who you are to speak for the “HN community”.
- robocat 6y agoTouché. I apologise, you are correct. You are still avoiding answering my criticism of your original thesis. Edit: I’ll append the approximations at the base of my heuristic: * I only care about marginal $deltas when comparing * an extra shipping container costs $10000 * one cubic metre holds 1000 one litre boxes * a charger costs Apple $5 * total marginal $delta shipping costs are less than 10 times the delta in shipping costs * Apple use 20 foot containers Although on second thought, they must use planes otherwise inventory in transit would be astronomical, but I still believe that marginal savings from not producing a charger dominates (by over 10x) the savings from smaller packaging.
- vl 6y agoThey ship by plane, and I believe it's constrained by weight, not volume. I.e. iPhone 12 Pro weighs 189 grams, packaging + cable approx 50 grams more. And USB-C 20W brick is 62 grams. I.e. adding power brick would increase shipping weight and cost by 25%.