QFTT
This isnt about the Tomahawk. It isnt even about RSA. Its about attitudes.
- many of you will have seen the 'expose' which puts the parts cost of the iPhone at about 1/20th of the retail price.
- many may also have seen the estimate which puts the cost of the iPad2 at around 15K USD if Apple built it using American labour
- the DiYers here know the price of everything. Sadly, many dont seem to value 'implementation' among those costs - if you managed to assemble a Bottlehead Crack and it works, congrats, but you didnt exactly *design* the thing, did you ?
Anyone who can build an iPhone or an iPad for less than Apple charge for it, hack the OS and get the thing working, more power to you.
Anyone who can build a better portable amp than Ray, or Jan, or Justin, or *whoever* : do it, and post pics/impressions of the result. How many of those guys do you think started out working for Marantz/NAD/whoever, and how many started out as DIYers ?
For the rest of us, we pay for someone else to put their grey matter to work.
