It will sell for a lot more than it's competition. It won't have a significant upside apart from being a shorter supply chain, and it will have a french metric tonne of non-US components and dependencies, without a great deal of hurt.
None of this means he shouldn't do it. To the contrary. It's necessary, and it should probably be funded.
If I had to rank concerns, outsourcing smart device management to Asia in the power and utility sector at large would be my #1 and #2 would be the lack of an independent supply chain for portable devices, because they go everywhere
bigyabai•2h ago
My primary concern is that Palmer Luckey has shown himself to be an enormously unprincipled individual. He might build the best laptop on the planet, but I could never trust him to not sell out to Meta.
ggm•44m ago
Thats a "yes, but not him" or "not like that" response.
Look, I get it. We hate the top. It totally shits me to know my services are backed by Oracle, because I don't like Mr Ellison. But I didn't like Jobs, and yet I (and half the western hemisphere) use his product.
If we're going to go all "I cant trust him" on this, look no further than what people think about any ICT provider, anywhere in the supply chain.
Sometimes, the ones who persist surprise me. I had no idea the panasonic toughbook would simply go on. Or a post-IBM sale Lenovo. If you'd told me SONY would wind up being irrelevant at scale except for headphones, Toshiba would cease to sell consumer product in most of the west, Hell that Digital Equipment would wind up being bought by Compaq, trashed, and then sold to HP...
ggm•2h ago
None of this means he shouldn't do it. To the contrary. It's necessary, and it should probably be funded.
If I had to rank concerns, outsourcing smart device management to Asia in the power and utility sector at large would be my #1 and #2 would be the lack of an independent supply chain for portable devices, because they go everywhere
bigyabai•2h ago
ggm•44m ago
Look, I get it. We hate the top. It totally shits me to know my services are backed by Oracle, because I don't like Mr Ellison. But I didn't like Jobs, and yet I (and half the western hemisphere) use his product.
If we're going to go all "I cant trust him" on this, look no further than what people think about any ICT provider, anywhere in the supply chain.
Sometimes, the ones who persist surprise me. I had no idea the panasonic toughbook would simply go on. Or a post-IBM sale Lenovo. If you'd told me SONY would wind up being irrelevant at scale except for headphones, Toshiba would cease to sell consumer product in most of the west, Hell that Digital Equipment would wind up being bought by Compaq, trashed, and then sold to HP...