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... they create a niche for a third ... provided there are enough people who care. If nobody cares nobody cares.
by api 6y ago
... they create a niche for a third ... provided there are enough people who care.
If nobody cares nobody cares.
- Dylan16807 6y agoI don't have infinite resources to care with. Even if everyone is willing to spend an extra $100, a duopoly can ignore them and lose no money. That's not enough money to bootstrap a competitor desktop/laptop CPU.
- square_usual 6y agoYou make it seem like anybody can make a competitive CPU and take it to market. You need billions of dollars of R&D to make a good CPU, and if everyone who can afford that R&D signs on to taking your freedom away, there is no alternative.
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoYet billionairs don't invest in this, they make rockets and fancy cars. Fancy phones.. You don't care, just admit it. They know it.
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoYou downvote this, HN, but this is spot on. You keep gobbling up this shit, you all drool over the toys Intel and MS push into your faces. Shoveling this manure up your own asses for decades. Now you are complaining and claiming you have no choice. Yeah, _now_ you don't anymore, but there is still wiggle room to influence the future. If we all go belly up and give up dystopia will come sooner than you are comfortable with.