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People keep shouting printer like they can just do it like that. Printers are a whole different beast, likely needing a whole seperate team with a different type of engineers. A desktop, given the existing team, is perfectly reasonable.
Calling a product DOA because of soldered ram is just a braindead take. Also, just because the ram isn't upgradable the whole desktop isn't upgradable or repairable? Are you hearing yourself? Get a grip.
No one thinks they can "just do it" but they can do it, just like they did for laptops.
A braindead take is a company that's founded on repairable and upgradeable computers selling a computer that's none of those things.
Its not just the RAM, the CPU and GPU are also not repairable or upgradeable, and this is in a class of products where everything else is...
Is your idea of repairable based on whether ram is upgradable? They tried and couldn't do it, so they had to settle for the next best thing.
RAM? CPU? GPU? Is anything at all outside of the SSD? These components make up 90% of the cost of the product so any one of them dying means it goes straight in the trash can. There's tons of hardware that doesn't have those restrictions and works just as well.
No they did not. They could have not sold it, and developed/sold something else instead.