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This is the sort of thing that economies of scale bring when paired with a lack of effective competition. If there's effective competition, then some company ca
by makomk 10y ago
This is the sort of thing that economies of scale bring when paired with a lack of effective competition. If there's effective competition, then some company can and will cut into all the other companies' sales by selling a fully-unlocked version of their hardware at close to the price of the locked version.
- hueving 10y ago>sales by selling a fully-unlocked version of their hardware at close to the price of the locked version. not quite. it's possible you can't afford to make the fully-unlocked version at scale unless you can charge extra for it.
- rcthompson 10y agoEconomies of scale by themselves cause lack of effective competition, because the biggest company automatically wins by taking advantage of the economies of scale and the rest go out of business. That's why an industry with significant economies of scale is called a "natural monopoly".