Palmer Luckey Considering Entering Laptop Market with Us-Made Model
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Palmer Luckey is considering entering the laptop market with a US-made model, sparking discussion about the feasibility and appeal of such a product, with some commenters questioning the practicality and others expressing interest.
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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
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...
I assert the world would only be a better place if we had more reasons not to buy shit we don’t need.
I have a story about an internet figure who harboured a long term grudge against Adobe and so sought to avoid PDF and that's pretty hard to do. Submitting tender documents is basically impossible. Yes plain ascii should suffice.
I'll boycott Luckey's laptop just like I boycott Cook's and Pichai's. I don't need the satisfaction of one-man-armying their entire company to smithereens, I simply don't want any of my paycheck furthering their failures of a business. It saves me time, money, and hours of existential dread relating to whether or not I'm the baddie. If they won't stand by their principles, I'm happy to do it for them.
Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682672