Fender and Gibson don't use "aftermarket" pickups anymore?

[donaldr]

Re: Fender and Gibson don't use "aftermarket" pickups anymore?

Why spend pennies extra for a product most of your customer's won't use? The market suggests that the more profitable alternative would be for them to charge extra for a wiring harness that would allow for the user to quickly change in that companies proprietary pickups that the customer would have paid extra for.

If, like you said, all stock pickups are trash, then why would guitar companies pay extra so that a handful of people can more conviently use someone else's product?

Never said anywhere that all stock pickups are trash. Maybe you are referring to someone else.
Also never said that all Seymour/Dimarzio pickups should come with Gibson quick-connect. I said they Gibson quick-connect should be offer as an option, but that quick-connect is like $0.25 so it's no big deal to put it on a $99 pickup and can be easily cutoff (should be only on Gibson targeted pickups, not strat/tele pickups). SD is offering its BYOP but only for Strats and not available in any online store I searched.
Anyway, back to OP.