6 comments

  • js2 2 hours ago
    Previously:

    (2012, 246 points, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636047

    (2013, 170 points, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6575994

    (2021, 208 points, 158 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28700554

  • ethagknight 1 hour ago
    Is this one of those cases where Apple didn’t invented, but they did crash the price per unit?
    • zerobees 1 hour ago
      No. There was no "unit". This was before the days of modular PC PSUs and switching wall warts (which started proliferating only later). So it was just a custom circuit that used commodity components. For these components, orders from Apple would have been tiny compared to the overall market demand.
  • Modified3019 3 hours ago
    What an excellent example of Brandolini's law: “ The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
  • Hatrix 2 hours ago
    Apple 2 power supply worked until it failed after a couple years.
  • ksec 4 hours ago
    Missing (2012) in the title.