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> If they were genuinely valued product differentiators those models would have been rewarded Can't vote with your wallet for a product that nobody is offering
by schwartzworld 4y ago
> If they were genuinely valued product differentiators those models would have been rewarded
Can't vote with your wallet for a product that nobody is offering.
But you're half right. When my mom buys a phone, she doesn't think about those things, but when she calls me and says "my phone is full what do I do?" I would previously have advised her to pop in an SD card, but that option no longer exists.
- Certhas 4y agoIn the economic literature this is sometimes modelled as time inconsistent preferences. A well known source of market failures. This thread is full of what one might call the efficient market fallacy "this is what manufacturers provide, thus it must be what people really want".
- simonh 4y agoIt’s full of people like me who know what they want, and it’s not the bulky, feature encrusted structurally compromised things others here want to make the only legal option. I’m sorry that they don’t have the products on the market they want to buy, but is it really reasonable to ‘fix’ that by making the ones I and many others like and do buy illegal?