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A comment on IBM’s Old Playbook. Parent comment

Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by roymurdock on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:22PM (#18331003)
You are thinking like a software engineer, not a product manager or owner of capital.

If any of these companies is able to extract monopoly profits without fear of competition undercutting them or government/legal intervention, they will.

Right now all 3 are competing fiercely to win the hardware rental market, but this may not be the case in the future once the market matures, and they may raise prices to match leaving costs (as parent comment pointed out) if they can lock customers in.

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Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by user5994461 on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:34PM (#18331737)
I have to +1 this.

The price must always go up over time. If there were a first rule of business, that would be that.

Price decrease is just a longer term strategy where it goes down before it goes up.

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Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by cbnotfromthere on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:43AM (#18346078)
The amount of implicit absurdity behind your words is astonishing. Basically outside die-hard Marxists nobody takes such claims seriously, because it implies lack of competition.

Hint: the cloud market has PLENTY of competition.

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