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Comment by ethagknight

3 days ago

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, the volume of orders from Apple would have been tiny compared to overall market demand.