24 Dec
2012
24 Dec
'12
12:11 p.m.
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
C: Now you could say the industry is just giving the
consumer what
they want.
The industry is just giving the consumer what the industry
told them that they want
C: the consumer had to be told that they wanted moderately useful stuff for low prices???
There's no reasons for manufacturers to lower their prices but for market
forces/competition. Quality suffers, but what can you expect? A person shows up at Target,
sees a 16 gig thumb drive for, I don't know, 10 bucks, they say "WOW, I can
afford that!". And buy it. It's simple economics. Sure companies like Microshaft
work hard to try to tell us what we need, and are successful some of the time, but
we're talking about hardware here.