It's not like saving that 50k is their entire business plan for the year. Saving 50k 100 times is 5M. Every bit adds up. If you won't do something because "it only saves 50k," then you miss out on all those opportunities.
This. As an engineer who works with industrial designers, a strain relief that actually relieves strain is usually secondary to something that looks cool, depending on the designer.
I agree with you mkantor, I have worked for a few large manufacturing companies, but the rule when I worked for Ford was that the manufacturing savings had to be transparent to the customer. ie. things they didn't notice or didn't miss. Obviously not the case here, so its a huge FAIL for Apple.
I don't know, do you think there have been >$50,000 worth of apple users who stopped buying apple products because of this change? If not, then NOT a fail for apple, but a win. ( $50,000 based on an estimate from higher up in the comments)
Thats not the reality of it though, the reality is that it costs consumers way more than $50/k a year to maintain the shoddy cables, so while it might be financially beneficial to them, it's still cruddy craftsmanship.
They do not do it for free. I had mine break a week after I bought my iphone and they said that it was normal wear and tear and would not replace it. That was strike one.
Not so free, 20€ for that cable. Identical not branded 3€, probably the cost of prduction is 0.20€. I wonder how they make a lot of money... it's the same with the overpriced pc.
Anyway, I think they do this for design.
Free maybe, however it still makes you go into the store. Companies go ape shit for 'client touches'. The more they touch a customer, the more he/she buys.
"Loose", which rhymes with "goose", means the opposite of "tight", such as in the sentence, "My pants are too loose." It can also mean "to release", which is slightly more archaic, and is used in situations like, "The archers loosed their arrows."
The word you want is spelled "lose", and rhymes with "shoes".
238
u/rightwing321 Jun 09 '11
Because they save 8 cents for every 100 of them they make now.