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If you think that there's enough demand for such a device to justify the expense in developing it, you should have no problems attracting investment to build it
by thegrimmest 5y ago
If you think that there's enough demand for such a device to justify the expense in developing it, you should have no problems attracting investment to build it, don't you think?
- YmiYugy 5y agoYou mean this couldn't possibly be a market failure?
- thegrimmest 5y agoThat depends on how you define the term. If you're suggesting things are less than optimal, I'm perfectly glad to agree with you. If you're suggesting we should use the force of regulation to attempt to optimize them, you've lost me.
- colinmhayes 5y agoUnfortunately iOS and Android have incredible lock in in addition to more than a decade head start. Just like Oracle is able to continue making $40 billion a year even though their product is ass.
- thegrimmest 5y agoThat can be rephrased as "Oracle is continuing to see a return on its investment and innovation in RDBMS from the 80's into the 2000s". Why is this a bad thing?
- colinmhayes 5y agoBecause their product sucks?
- paulryanrogers 5y agoCashing in on regulatory capture, punitive licensing, and momentum from their now largely discontinued R&D.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoNo, I'm sayin that even though it's not a monopoly, but a duopoly, they should be regulated as a monopoly, because there are no real alternatives, and the barrier to entry is really high.