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1. cosmic_cheese · 1790865337 · focus · HN ↗

   As an end user it’s difficult to not be bitter about the situation, particularly when you have execs coming out and saying, “yep these prices sure are terrible, better buy now before they get even worse!”

   I’ve seen people say, “well that’s just the free market, there’s a customer that’s willing to pay more than you,” but that argument doesn’t hold water when industry incumbents are actively obstructing entrance of new competitors into their primary markets. Micron, etc can’t both refuse to carve off more of their capacity for consumer-destined NAND and also refuse to allow others to fill the vacuum they’ve so conveniently created. Either you’re serving the market or you’re not; you don’t get to have your cake and eat it too under properly functioning, healthy capitalism.

   1. skeptic_ai · 1790867499 · focus · HN ↗

      How they refuse competitors to enter the market?

      1. mckenzba · 1790870520 · focus · HN ↗

         Micron has been lobbying to ban CXMT from the US market after Apple was entertaining using them as a supplier.
      2. dabinat · 1790875387 · focus · HN ↗

         Memory production is restricted by patents. CXMT only exists because they bought patents from another company.

         1. Danox · 1790879776 · focus · HN ↗

            Yeah, sure the rest of the world, outside the West, isn’t going to care.

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