It's more appropriately termed a conjecture, as no proof is available to either confirm or refute it. In scientific terms, a theory is well-established by empirical evidence that would disprove the theory, were it not true. Very few ideas that people refer to as "theories" actually meet this standard, since it requires carefully-designed and controlled experiments, which are then reviewed and repeated by others.
Nothing you've presented as evidence or "proof" would even hold up in a court of law.
Ditto, I did not claim to have proof, I claimed to have a more reasonable explanation than you. You are the one fixated on "proof". You provided an unreasonable argument and choose to use the fall-back position of "well, you can't prove otherwise". Yet you have no logical explanation as to why your scenario makes any sense...at all. I provided such an explanation. You did not.
If you believe those numbers and you think they didn't need to charge so much, then you don't seem to understand marginal costs.
The numbers were off-the-cuff to illustrate my point. I have a very good understanding of costs, thank you very much.
A wheel kit and the designation of "fastest gaming CPU" are not comparable, in any way. People who buy a CPU for gaming are more likely to go with the brand having the designation of being the best for that purpose. They don't make decisions about whether to buy a Power Mac based on the price of its wheel kit.
I said it's entire product line. That means, Iphones, Ipads, earbuds, etc etc.
The pricing and marketing of the machine, itself, is enough to establish it as a halo product. However, I don't think it much matters whether it's halo product. Indeed most people buying Power Macs likely have no other choice - they're either forced to use Mac OS apps, or simply refuse to use anything else, and need more horsepower than they can get from Apple's other products. It's a captive market.
Yes, the Power Mack is a halo product. The wheels themselves drew more attention to that product. You have missed the point entirely.
I'll not dignify the rest of your post with a reply, as I find it highly inflammatory and I don't wish to escalate this further.
However, my primary reason for replying is to point out one observation that you can't disregard, if you're being at all honest with yourself. Linus had an incentive to put out that video, regardless of whether it's true or not. He needs to publish content to keep racking up views and subscribers, and there's no better way to do that than with a controversial claim that doesn't stretch credulity too much.
By that standard, anyone that produces content, including this site has incentive. Which makes your point, rather pointless.
Well done, LTT. Bravo. We are indeed suckers.
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