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Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by lupire on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:39AM (#27501847)
"suck dry" is excessive editorializing for a practice that make sit possible for a market to exist without, well, "sucking the manufacturer dry".
Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by Rastonbury on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:16AM (#27513232)
Exactly, it is not an economics trick for if companies could only supply a certain level of the market it might not even be profitable to produce. It is just economics...

We are talking about chips here so not the same bottle of soap with different labels, I'd call that a trick.