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My issue with ultrabooks proliferating is that they've made other, more capable machines more niche and more expensive. It's similar to the way that mobile phon
by Karunamon 6y ago
My issue with ultrabooks proliferating is that they've made other, more capable machines more niche and more expensive. It's similar to the way that mobile phones standardized on featureless glass slabs after the entire industry decided to take after Apple, with shockingly little innovation happening outside of software.
It lowers the lowest common denominator, in other words. The gulf between "consumption machine" and "work machine" is now higher.
- leetcrew 6y agothat's understandable, but it sounds like what you're really saying here is that you want to take advantage of economies of scale for products that don't make the trade-offs that most consumers actually want.