I am flummoxed by your train of thought here, and I really do think part of it is you’re not thinking through what goes into a product.

Firstly, look at any tear down. The boards aren’t identical. Beyond that, it still requires specific tooling, specific power delivery and engineering, as well as parts that aren’t shared.

So in your weird business view, you think Apple is doing all of that regardless of market share. For what purpose?

Then beyond that, they also spend significant money to market it, and again you believe they do so despite a lack of market?

Beyond that, they have expensive retail spaces and many products vying for attention. Yet they dedicate significant amounts of space to a product you claim has no market? You also claim they're not stocked at most retailers, yet I can walk into the Best Buy and Staples near me and they have iMacs available. So what incentive would they have?

If everything you say is true, then you must surely think Apple is both incredibly stupid and flushing billions of dollars away on a product line that isn’t selling?

How about we try approaching this the other way, and you explain why you think Apple would do such a thing, year after year?

> So in your weird business view, you think Apple is doing all of that regardless of market share. For what purpose?

Yes, very much and that’s a good question. I guess they consider the iMac to be important in the branding they want to maintain but money wise, hard to explain.

They believe in it so much they are already discounting it right now. A brand new product.

It was made completely irrelevant by the Mac Mini lineup with which is a better alternative if you want a desktop.

> Then beyond that, they also spend significant money to market it

Apple barely does any marketing for the iMac.