Apple may be vertically integrated (depending on how you figure Foxconn and TSMC), but no other machines are.
CPU from Amd/Intel, board from someone else, ram from someone else, storage from another party, OS from yet another party.
Phones are similar, maybe Samsung uses a samsung cpu, a samsung lcd, samsung ram, and samsung storage, and a Samsung build of a Google OS. More integration than Apple. Everyone else though, is still putting parts together from many suppliers.
You completely missed the point, which laptops, phones or tablets can you still buy at a regular consumer shop, that are still as configurable as old time PCs?
Have you tried to build a laptop or a tablet yourself as we used to build PCs during the 1990s?
Yes we know about System 76, and similar attempts, sadly they aren't something I can find on MediaMarket, Vobis, FNAC, Saturn, Cool Blue, Carrefour,...
Oh sure, computers are more integrated now. But you said vertically integrated which I was addressing.
Really though, when the CPU has everything you need, other than ram and storage, why do you need to have a box you can mess with?
I still build my own computers, but computers at home are becoming endangered. One of my siblings simply doesn't have one, and the other only has a work computer. Many of my child's friends don't have a computer at home, unless it's a school chromebook or their parents work in tech.
CPU from Amd/Intel, board from someone else, ram from someone else, storage from another party, OS from yet another party.
Phones are similar, maybe Samsung uses a samsung cpu, a samsung lcd, samsung ram, and samsung storage, and a Samsung build of a Google OS. More integration than Apple. Everyone else though, is still putting parts together from many suppliers.