Re:Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
by AstralStorm on Friday September 16, 2016 @03:02AM
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Segmenting a market is often suboptimal. See how Intel is "segmenting" their CPU market by hard locking features in "consumer" CPUs. This effectively means they are not available unless you pay big big money.
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Re:Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
by davidivadavid on Friday September 16, 2016 @04:29AM
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Why is that suboptimal? It certainly is suboptimal for consumers in the short run, since it helps Intel increase producer surplus. How that producer surplus is used to create better technology has a pretty important role in determining whether it's optimal in the longer run.