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This is patently untrue, as I also called out in the article. Voting with your wallet is not possible if the option to buy what you want is not even presented.
by basilgohar 7y ago
This is patently untrue, as I also called out in the article. Voting with your wallet is not possible if the option to buy what you want is not even presented. Moreover, the self-fulfilling cycle of offering sub-par AMD systems and then people not wanting those, and then the OEMs say, "see, we offering (lousy) AMD systems and no one got them".
The problem is there are very few DESIRABLE AMD offerings, and moreover, the vast majority of people don't even care what's inside, they are looking at price.
This is all before even mentioning that AMD systems, even when performant, have been positioned as value or low-end systems, just to differentiate between them and the Intel offerings.
It's also already heavily covered elsewhere in the thread, but Intel has been furiously and notoriously working to undermine AMD with backdoor deals to keep them from a greater marketshare.