Re:Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up wi...
by throw0101d on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:41AM
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> The simple fact is that a 16 GB RAM stick costs much less than the development time to make the app run on less.
The costs are borne by different people: development by the company, RAM sticks by the customer.
A company is potentially (silently?) adding to the cost of the product/service that the customer has to bear by needed to have more RAM (or have the same amount, but can't do as much with it).
Re:Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up wi...
by stavros on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:45AM
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Yep, and since companies care about TCO, they reward the software with the lower TCO, which happens to be the one that uses more RAM but is cheaper to produce.
The costs are borne by different people: development by the company, RAM sticks by the customer.
A company is potentially (silently?) adding to the cost of the product/service that the customer has to bear by needed to have more RAM (or have the same amount, but can't do as much with it).