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Regarding stickers on PCs, once one PC manufacturer added a sticker for feature X, they would have an advantage in physical stores over the other manufacturer’s
by layer8 2mo ago
Regarding stickers on PCs, once one PC manufacturer added a sticker for feature X, they would have an advantage in physical stores over the other manufacturer’s PC next to it, because consumers overwhelmed by the available choices would rather buy the PC with the indicated feature over the one that might not have it. If Macs were available from different manufacturers and displayed in stores side by side, I’m not sure that Apple could escape that mechanism.
- StilesCrisis 2mo agoIs "Intel inside" even a feature? It's not like the other laptop will be lacking a CPU.
- layer8 2mo agoYou can read up the history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Intel_Inside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Intel_Inside. Nowadays the considerations aren’t exactly the same anymore as 20-30 years ago, but by some measure Intel CPUs are still the most interoperable x86 CPUs, due to their market share.
- StilesCrisis 2mo agoI'm not sure this explains anything? It is the story of one successful marketing campaign in the 90s. Intel's reputation in the 2020s is not what it was then.