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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by gruez on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:22PM (#31603496)
>they said that most of their major customers successfully reverse-engineered prices, and that kept their margins down.

What does this mean? Did they perfect the negotiating process? Did they figure out what your margins are, then demanded that you halve them?

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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by wumpus on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:34PM (#31603563)
These major storage vendors only make the software; the hardware is commodity.

The customers figured out the prices of the hardware: disks or flash, a way to connect them to a "server", the "server", the network that the "server" offers.

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