<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gabrielroth</author><text>One factor that the author doesn&apos;t mention is Apple&apos;s success at lining up deals with component manufacturers. A couple years ago (before anyone had heard of the iPad) they locked in great prices on flash memory and LCD displays. They could do that because they were about to invent a huge market, and they knew it. Anyone trying to get into the tablet business in 2010 had to pay much, much more.&lt;p&gt;Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive are no slouches, but Tim Cook doesn&apos;t get enough credit for stuff like that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/ipad-price/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fuzzmeister</author><text>&quot;Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world.&quot;&lt;p&gt;I struggle to see how that statement could be true for a company that outsources all of its manufacturing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/ipad-price/</url></story>