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If you cannot run what you want on the device, do you really own it?
by varispeed 6y ago
If you cannot run what you want on the device, do you really own it?
- bryanlarsen 6y agoIf you cannot buy it because miners have purchased all the stock, do you really own it?
- varispeed 6y agoNot sure how this is relevant. Company should look how to increase the supply instead of artificially crippling the product to squeeze more money.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoBy crippling the product for miners, they're increasing the supply for gamers.
- asutekku 6y agoIf it is not physically possible, this decision makes a lot of sense. Due to the global semiconductor shortage it simply is not possible to build more on the scale customers would like to.
- varispeed 6y agoThe instrument to regulate that is called the price. You increase the price until there is a steady supply. That would help funding new fabs and in the long run increase the supply so that it could be available for a broader range of consumers. The way they do it is not sustainable. They will not generate enough money to pay for new manufacturing plants this way.
- glennpratt 6y agoAnd crypto demand can evaporate tomorrow, as it has in the past and leave those plants unprofitable.
- kristjansson 6y ago> ‘long run’ That’s on the order of years for this problem. I would imagine that Nvidia doesn’t think it could survive the reputational costs of charging market clearing prices for their cards for years - effectively proscribing their core gamer market for the entire period. Sure, that’s what’s happening now, but it’s the fault of scalpers not a business decision by Nvidia. The scalpers get the ire of the core market, and Nvidia gets to look like it’s doing its best (while guaranteeing all the inventory it can make will sell) It’s the same reason your favorite band charges a low face for tickets that doesn’t reflect demand - they don’t want to be the bad guy excluding poor people from the experience, they just let the scalpers do that.
- varispeed 6y agoSo they essentially got themselves in a pickle. It looks like they have not invested money in infrastructure and instead lowered prices to attract as many people as possible thinking what they currently have will be "enough". They have not predicted that the demand will be so high that it will exceed their current abilities and they have no money to increase the production and they are unable to raise the money without destroying the market they built. That they want to give the experience to the "poor" people it is just a poor excuse of poor management.
- dageshi 6y agoHowever many they produce, miners will buy all of them. Miners will outbid gamers on the same cards. What is your solution?
- talhah 6y agoNo, you never bought it to begin with. Can't own what you never paid for obviously.
- ortusdux 6y agoMany car manufacturers have found that it is cheaper to ship all vehicles with a feature, and then have the owner pay to unlock it. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/2/21311332/bmw-in-car-purchase-heated-seats-software-over-the-air-updates https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/2/21311332/bmw-in-car-purcha...
- mhh__ 6y agoWell, ask Apple about that.