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The Vision Pro doesn't exactly seem to have reached what I would normally think of as mass production so I wouldn't be surprised if the scale doesn't really wor
by hnbad 3y ago
The Vision Pro doesn't exactly seem to have reached what I would normally think of as mass production so I wouldn't be surprised if the scale doesn't really work for them yet.
That said, with raw numbers like this I always have to think of the teardown of the Juicero which revealed that it used numerous custom parts that certainly made it very expensive to manufacture: https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/ https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/
The catch with Juicero of course is that while the parts were very expensive, it could have been made much cheaper by using standard parts instead of the custom ones. I'm not saying that's the case here but it's worth taking these things with a grain of salt.
- subtra3t 3y agoSome economies of scale take effect not with the scale of production but with the size of the business. And Apple is as big a business as any.
- bombcar 3y agoIt’s also a trade off balance - if you use custom parts you can make them “all perfect” and save money at volume - if you use standard parts you save money at the beginning but often have a larger product than otherwise. Apple obviously had some serious discussions on this and came down on the “customize to make it the best we can” and “don’t subsidize it at all” - unlike how some consoles were done.