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"Barebone" market does exist, and since market couldn't exist without money... I guess there are "money-bringing entities" (aka customers) already for that sort of stuff. ...but electric cars without batteries and wheels market? not quite sure about that.
Is a Steam Machine rival in the sense that Valve has to bent and pray to ram cartel to have a batch of machines to sell; AOOSTAR don't. Of course, AOOSTAR doesn't have the reaching power of Valve; but this may help Valve to understand there are options to what the ram cartel forces them into.
Yep yep yep.
Tons of manufacturers are offering barebones builds of many models of miniPCs and similar, because... the environment is just that insane.
They can do all the work of designing their cases and boards and SOCs or cpu/apu/npu integrated mobos and such...
But RAM? SSDs? Sometimes GPUs?
They can sell more if they do 90% of the work, and the ... basically enthusiast by definition consumer base does the other 10% of 'final assembly'.
If a barebones model doesn't appeal to somebody... okey dokey then, good luck finding a better deal without any work on your end, convenience maxxing consumer.
Do people not like, get, that most PC components are ultimately made by ... cartels? Do people not get that?
They're literally cartels, they just make and sell computer components, not cocaine.