• Fedditor385@lemmy.world
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    So, their chips become unsuitable for enterprise servers. Datacenters avoiding them and buying AMD. Intel losing enterprise market share and revenue. Reduced revenue causes next layoffs, probably again people working on things that keep the business working. Shoots itself in the foot and being surprised about the consequences.

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        Monopolies are good for the consumer as it makes purchasing decisions easier. Some tech markets such as the GPU one show how well a monopoly can work for shareholders.

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          Monopolies are good for the consumer?

          Respectfully, what the fuck are you talking about. That has never been true ever.

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                  There is /s but I opted not to use it. Using it makes the sarcasm less “fun”/rewarding for me.

                  I am quite surprised at the amount of people that think people exist that would praise a monopoly and celebrate shareholder value. Sadly people thinking that means that they have encountered people who hold such beliefs seriously. Which is quite sad.

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                    It’s surprising that you are surprised that these people exist, when they’re very loud about how stupid they are.

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                    the problem is that those people actually exist and post. so it is hard to see the difference btw the monopoly/technocratic feudalists and the average sarcastic poster. being naive about that group is probably your first mistake. sorry for the heavy eyeroll and expression of disgust. Maybe find another way to have “fun?”

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                    I am quite surprised at the amount of people that think people exist that would praise a monopoly and celebrate shareholder value.

                    If you’ve never been to the US, don’t. Half the population unironically hold those beliefs as sacred.

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          Yeah, wouldn’t it be amazing if for example Apple has the monopoly on the smartphone market, so your purchasing decision would be to buy an iPhone, or a slightly larger iPhone? And they would have no competition - which is the definition of a monopoly - so they could price them at whatever they wanted to, they could even make the American iPhone a reality, because let’s be real, it’s kinda hard to function without a phone these days so who cares if it costs $5k, you can just sell a kidney, right? You got two of 'em.

          Monopolies are such a great thing for consumers :)

          (Please don’t sell a kidney for an iPhone, it’s a really bad decision.)

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            That is what the tariffs are for and Apple has promised to invest a shit ton of money into manufacturing those phones here… so they can raise the prices to the ceiling of the tariffs imposed on China, India, Thailand, Indonesia … etc. There are no other smart phones manufactured in the US so they will effectively… have a monopoly.

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            That story is really sad. To me it seems like a failing of the parents/education system to not teach the son who was 17 that selling a kidney is a bad idea.