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by gutnor 4668 days ago
Standards cheap replaceable parts brought the PC to dominate their very expensive IBM counterpart.

See the problem, is that this idea, with today's technology would be more expensive to build than the device it is competing against. (if it was possible at all)

And if you need to go against the network too, it means competing against $200 iPhone5s and the like.