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Then again, being Exxon hasn't harmed Exxon's bottomline. Granted, consumer goods might be a whole different ballgame.
by terminus 14y ago
Then again, being Exxon hasn't harmed Exxon's bottomline.
Granted, consumer goods might be a whole different ballgame.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoExxon's marketplace is largely commoditized, which is part of the reason they act how they do, Apple's marketplace could not be more different.
- mbesto 14y agoPersonal computers aren't a commodity?
- praptak 14y agoNope. A barrel of oil from Exxon is undistinguishable from any other barrel of oil traded at the exchanges. This is not the case with say, Thinkpads vs Macbooks. Quote wikipedia: "A commodity has full or partial fungibility; that is, the market treats it as equivalent or nearly so no matter who produces it." So nope, definitely not (yet) the case with computers.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoYet oddly for more the case with "the cloud" I am hopeful that openstack will give me a large range of providers I can use with the same Apis - and that my app design will be sufficient that even the remaining non fungible parts of a hosted computer (OS, connectivity, size of data stored) will be mitigated I am not sure if it's a good or a bad thing but pretty soon every computer other than the ones I carry will be commodities
- burke 14y agoIn particular, oil is a fungible commodity. Fungibility is the key factor here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility