Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ferrule@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you know when the bubble pops and they no longer have AI companies buying RAM they will switch back to consumers and keep the high prices.

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  • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    if they’re still around when the financial shell game they’re playing finally comes to a stop. who am i kidding the government will bail them out.

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Using your money.

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      • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        if the US government were actually funded by taxes, everything the government does would be with “my money”

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Profits for me, losses for thee

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      • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That only works if we (the collective we) have more money. If a rich person has more $$ than a small country that means the effect we have is equivalent.

        That’s why micron is doing what its doing. We are no longer the customer. They voted for us.

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  • DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course, not all the companies survive and now there’s decreased competition, so we can shove prices up a little bit further

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Absolutely

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• kboos1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s every company, most upper management don’t stay in one position for more than 2 years. So the system is setup for short term gains because investors aren’t interested in long term investments and the blowback is the next guys problem. Who then is looking for the next big win to cover up the last guy issues without fixing anything. Then they bring in someone to clean up the mess and the cycle starts again.

  Plus most consumers have short memories or don’t have an alternative so their stuck. There are small groups holding on but for 75% of the world’s population right now it’s Android or iOS, AMD or Intel, AMD or NVIDIA, Samsung or WD or Seagate or SanDisk, Att or Verizon, Apple or Microsoft, and so on.

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every business is doing this for everything. To different degrees but they are all chasing their “get our fortune now and get the fuck out because the sky is falling” mentality. Have been since Trump 1.0 and now it’s accelerating rapidly.

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  • SportsRulesOpinions@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have to remember that “get that bag” is practically inherit to business. We spend a lot of time and effort making it illegal to fuck people over and do bad business stuff, but kinda-sorta since Regan the businesses have slowly been winning that battle.

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also your reputation. I had a Crucial SSD and was days from getting an identical one as a backup but then they said they were stopping consumer RAM sales so they’re now on my blacklist.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Question is, though, who now isn’t on your blacklist?

    Samsung and SK Hynix never sold to consumers directly, yet seem to be avoiding flak.

    Who do you get that isn’t that three? Almost all RAM on the market is Samsung, SK Hynix, or Micron.

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• ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  how are they in control? market demand is an outside force

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