Comment Re:Here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a real laptop (Score 1) 453
The difference is that economies of scale are extremely important in the electronic device world. It's easy to drop $100 million on R&D when you can spread it across 10 million device sales. If you're only going to sell them to ten people, then you need to sell them for $10 million each just to cover R&D costs. With Ostrich boots, the "R&D" cost is one tailor for one afternoon to make the pattern, maybe a couple hundred bucks in "R&D". That means they can produce very limited quantities and still turn a profit.