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Re:The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just... by ComputerGuru on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:36PM (#28419491)
Yes, publicly traded commodities do all the time because it means there are temporary inefficiencies in the system that can be arbitraged to turn some profit, until they converge at the “correct” price for some period of time.

But GP is correct, products typically don’t come down in pricing. Consumable goods are more elastic in a free market absent collusion, but finished honest-to-god products have a well-known price stickiness problem. (The price will come down, but rarely back to what it was.) Typically the only way that cycle is broken is when the product itself is obviated/supplanted by a replacement (eg an iPhone will never get cheaper but some new phone may come out that is cheaper and everyone moves to it).

These are all obviously generalities though.

Re:The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just... by Zanni on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:33AM (#28422041)
I'm surprised you mentioned iPhones, because that's exactly Apple's strategy. They tend to keep three generations around, and each time they introduce a new iPhone, they knock down the price of the previous generations. Here's [0] an article on them reducing the price of the iPhone 8 by $150 (from $559, so a significant cut of 25%) when they introduced the iPhone 11.

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/10/apple-cuts-iphone-8-and-i...

Re:The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just... by scheme271 on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:30PM (#28420957)
But they tend to do if there's a temporary price shock. Think hard drives after the thailand floods or gpus during and after a cryptomining boom/bust cycle. Or used car prices after the cash for clunkers bill.
Re:The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just... by wmf on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:56PM (#28421511)
Stickiness seems to apply to MSRP which has mostly not gone up.