~10 years ago it was frequent with some laptop producers (Dell comes to mind). I guess it comes down to quality of production - ie. don't try to be cheap bastard - and maturity of technology.
Both of this aspects are supposedly against the Boeing as the development (and thus certification, etc..) was done many years ago, thus they are behind technologically (like any other system/technology in aviation which have direct consumer counterparts) and Boeing is being run by MBAs which means they would typically be trying to be cheap bastards ("bottom line").
Both of this aspects are supposedly against the Boeing as the development (and thus certification, etc..) was done many years ago, thus they are behind technologically (like any other system/technology in aviation which have direct consumer counterparts) and Boeing is being run by MBAs which means they would typically be trying to be cheap bastards ("bottom line").