Fusion Drive is just one of many options available. You could get even better performance from a RAID array of SSDs. Most of what people pay Apple for is sorti

Fusion Drive is just one of many options available. You could get even better performance from a RAID array of SSDs. Most of what people pay Apple for is sorting all this stuff out, while many of us are capable of creating all sorts of hardware stacks most people just want something fast that they can store lots of stuff on, fusion drive delivers that. To consumers it's a tradeoff between price and management, and to be fair for most people an extra $250 is probably well worth it to them vs. how complex managing that storage is to them. Fusion Drive is sold on consumer surplus not commodity. Consumer surplus is the same reason programmers are so valuable to the economy, industry would rather pay someone else to figure out all this complex technology than invest the time in learning it themselves and saving themselves the cost of a programmer.