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A lot of people seem to think Apple purposely made the components less modular for profit purposes, but I think the bigger reason is that Apple took was limited
by vehemenz 4y ago
A lot of people seem to think Apple purposely made the components less modular for profit purposes, but I think the bigger reason is that Apple took was limited by the tolerances of the case design and took shortcuts with the component assembly to make manufacturing/QA cheaper.
- goosedragons 4y agoWhy not both? They certainly aren't pricing RAM and SSD upgrades from the goodness of their hearts. And I do wonder if continually making the base models have sub-par amounts of SSD and storage for the price gets people to upgrade the entire machine earlier. Doesn't help that you can't easily get a 1TB MBA either, that BTO, but you can pay an extra $1000 and get a 1TB 14" MBP right now.
- vehemenz 4y agoOf course. That's why I said "the bigger reason" instead of "the only reason."
- widowlark 4y agothey designed the case