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Jun 15th 2009 4:23AM wow. awful lot of talk with an awful dearth of information. bunch'a chicken littles.
VIZIO introduces new XVT, M and E series HDTVs {Engadget}
Jun 8th 2009 9:06AM Not that it's an excuse, but that's probably to mirror the sound out from the bottom-firing speakers. Personally, I prefer the clear plastic thingamagiggy on my older 60" vizio, but it can look a little cheap when hung on the wall...not that I'm eager to hang a 180lb tv on the wall.
We've got no word on pricing yet, I take it? Rats.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 3G! {Engadget}
May 27th 2009 3:03PM si. uno para mi, amigos.
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LX: NVIDIA calls Intel's single-chip Atom pricing "pretty unfair" {Engadget}
May 20th 2009 8:05PM Right, I understand your fear. I also know that there is a giant knowledge problem here, as the gov/judiciary does not have the information to "correctly" set prices. See my above post on the Sasquatch of "predatory pricing".
There's nothing that intel is doing to forcibly keep amd or anyone else out of the market (if I'm wrong I'll gladly recant, and that IS a valid role for gov intervention), because "low prices" is not a forcible exclusion.
I realize that people and even economists can disagree about this, but I *believe* that economists specializing in this field tend to hold opinions similar to mine, and dissimilar from the popular perception (and my old opinion).
Realize how much incentive a lesser competitor would have to complain of "unfair competition", and I think you'll be less prone to believe their cries.
Also, years ago, there were two companies that people thought were "so big" that nobody could ever compete with them, and government power was required to "open up the market to competition": A&P grocery stores and IBM, particularly, I believe, in their server areas. Al might as well be dead now, if it isn't, (with absolutely no gov intervention, but simply innovation on the part of competitors), and by the time IBM's antitrrust case was completed, they were a shadow of their former selves.
Your fears make sense, and are common, but history bears a different witness, and is worth considering.
Incidentally, and I don't believe that this "settles" the argument, but I'm currently getting my masters degree in economics.
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LX: NVIDIA calls Intel's single-chip Atom pricing "pretty unfair" {Engadget}
May 20th 2009 7:13PM sorry, who's being screwed? the customers who get cheaper lappies?
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LX: NVIDIA calls Intel's single-chip Atom pricing "pretty unfair" {Engadget}
May 20th 2009 7:12PM demand: still sloping downwards. what's the problem here?
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LX: NVIDIA calls Intel's single-chip Atom pricing "pretty unfair" {Engadget}
May 20th 2009 5:10PM This is why fans of capitalism are very often wisely not fans of capitalists, especially after they can get the government to back them up. If intel is selling stuff for "unfairly low" prices, that's GOOD for consumers. If nvidia can't sell at that price...guess what; innovate or go the hell away, don't whine to get the justice system to prop up your shitty business skills by hobbling your competitor.
incidentally, predatory pricing is virtually impossible to actually get to work...you have to hemmorage cash for longer than your competitors do, and then (and this is the hard part) raise your prices above the normal profit point for a long enough time to make back all of the money you lost. The problem is that capital is greedy and fast, and the second you start trying to sell at above normal profit, you've got someone starting back up nvidias old plants and cranking out chips to compete with you. Predatory pricing is a sasquatch; often talked about, very very rarely seen.
I used to be a big fan of anti-trust suits, and very worried about predatory pricing. Then I started studying economics, and now believe differently. Now, I think you only *really* need to worry about monopolies when the government grants them, so rather than looking to them for help, I now see them as the main culprit.
Switched On: Big Kindle on Campus {Engadget}
May 8th 2009 7:56PM ...first comment that sounded like someone's had some economics training. :)
Switched On: Big Kindle on Campus {Engadget}
May 8th 2009 7:55PM yep...journal articles will be pimptastic on here.
though, I'm still holding out for the plastic logic...seems like amazon knew people really wanted a larger screen with native pdf support...not sure why the heck that took so long (pdf, I mean)
Bargain hunters make Vizio LCDs most popular in US -- for now {Engadget}
May 8th 2009 5:26PM *wince* "intents and purposes"
/grammarnazi
