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No matter how much I am willing to pay, I cannot buy what I want. That is a market failure.
by mcculley 3y ago
No matter how much I am willing to pay, I cannot buy what I want. That is a market failure.
- fkyoureadthedoc 3y agoFrom one specific company though, you just don't want one from Dell
- mcculley 3y agoThe choices are Windows with a modem or macOS without.
- baggy_trough 3y agoThat is not what a market failure is.
- lostlogin 3y agoWell it’s not a success, so what it is?
- baggy_trough 3y agoIt might very well be a success if most people don't care about modems and/or it would be cost prohibitive to provide the option.
- mcculley 3y agoYes, my theory is that the Qualcomm monopoly makes it cost prohibitive. The question I asked is if anyone has evidence for this.
- bradknowles 3y agoOne person does not a market failure make. In order to be a market failure, a whole shitload of people have to want the feature in question, and yet although it could easily be made to happen, the feature is still not delivered. That's a market failure. Give us a reasoned and researched piece of evidence as to how large this potential market is. Like, how many people would actually buy it, as opposed to all the people who say they'd buy it but then don't actually put up the cash when the feature is delivered.
- mcculley 3y agoA market does not require a “shitload”. I am certain that I am not the only person who would buy a MacBook Pro with the connectivity of a Dell.
- fkyoureadthedoc 3y agoYou're certainly not the only person, but who are you to say that there's enough of you to offset the cost? They might very well have determined that they won't make enough money to do it, in which case the market is working perfectly well.
- mcculley 3y agoI remain unconvinced that this was a free market decision. This is why I asked about any evidence in the patent and royalty situation.
- bradknowles 3y agoCan you prove how many people would actually do so? Not the ones who say they would but in the end wouldn't cough up the money, but would actually carry through? If you can't prove that market is large enough, then it doesn't make sense for Apple to go to that expense. For example, how many people would pay enough extra to make it profitable for Apple to include a 192GB memory option for the M2 Max laptops and desktops? The current top end model maxes out at 96GB. How many people would pay enough extra to make it worth Apple's time to double that top end RAM value? I'm sure Apple can do it, it's just a matter of including the next level of higher capacity RAM modules. What is your provable Total Addressable Market? Startups do this kind of evaluation all the time, and they try to wheedle VCs out of money with those numbers. And VCs poke holes in those evaluations all the time. So, let's do the same thing here.
- mcculley 3y agoWhy do you think Dell bothers to put LTE modems in laptops? I asked about evidence regarding the patent and royalty situation that prevents Apple from delivering a similar product. I am on my fifth MacBook Pro. My first Mac was the 12” PowerBook G4. I bought many more for my employees. I would like to upgrade right now, but it would only be a marginal improvement. If Apple shipped a MacBook Pro today with an LTE modem, I would buy it today, as it would help me with my constant travel. I would like to open the lid on my MacBook Pro and immediately reply to the email I need to reply to instead of starting up the hotspot and waiting on it to download. iPad and iPhone can do this. That the laptop cannot is ridiculous.
- jononomo 3y agoI bet you could get what you want if you are willing to pay $10 billion.