Price destruction: mucho demand for $35 computer

[wilburbear]

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news...d-by-demand-as-35-linux-computer-launches.ars

 

[wilburbear]

Query: if you can make a $35 computer, can't you make a $199 Apple-like laptop, that just barely passes as a non-Apple?

 

[Jack_Larkin]

Quote from wilburbear:

Query: if you can make a $35 computer, can't you make a $199 Apple-like laptop, that just barely passes as a non-Apple?

If you want a reason to short AAPL, you won't find it in this...

 

[Debaser82]

It only works on linux...I can't work on that...

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Jack_Larkin:

If you want a reason to short AAPL, you won't find it in this...

All Apple products are seen as "cool and hip'.... justification to pay up and to continue upgrading to the latest.

Apple won't fall from grace until that perception changes.