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Point is they don't have to buy them, they already made too many.

• jsnell 3y ago
  But their goal is to sell these machines, and the buyers don't care about this being a clever way of moving excess inventory. Either the price or the product needs to be competive. Here the hardware isn't good value, so it'd need come down to them having an amazing integrated software story of some kind.
  • ska 3y ago
    Right, the hardware value parted out isn't' really relevant.. Thin clients aren't the same as e.g. commodity laptops, it's mostly about the services they connect to and how easily. Nobody actually cares about the spec of a thin client if it is behaving well (no idea if the fire TV boxes are up for it or not, if they are, their BOM cost doesn't matter).