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.
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.”
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
Is this one of those cases where Apple didn’t invented, but they did crash the price per unit?
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.
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.”
Apple 2 power supply worked until it failed after a couple years.
Missing (2012) in the title.