>Product market segmentation is a very reasonable thing to do. Why do people make it out like a bad thing?
Because most of us would rather pay a price that mostly reflects costs + some reasonable profit, not some artificially created segment, not fuel extravagant profits, not pay for future research, not pay for the company to have cash reserves, etc etc.
Re:Apple’s new APFS file system
by brianwawok on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:30PM
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As a consumer, your only choice is binary. Vote yes and buy, vote no and don't buy.
If it offends you that your device has some enterprise feature that you don't really need turned off unless you pay $x... sorry? But you don't really have a right to the feature for some margin % that you deem fair.
Product market segmentation is a very reasonable thing to do. Why do people make it out like a bad thing? If you ever run a business, you will want to find a way to get big enterprise to pay X, and small business to pay X/4. ECC is something businesses care way more about than gamers, so why not charge more for it?