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| fallacy:
Scalpers are only the symptom of the problem. The real problem is these companies with no pre-orders no 1 per customer, you could have gotten graphics cards out to the people that wanted 1 for its intended purpose but instead they don't care. Look at the Quest 2, no scalpers cheap price and they sold millions because they had it locked down. People were receiving them from there pre order literally a day after launch. They almost did too good of a job there was no FOMO or conversation to be had on not being able to get one. I guess for oculus it was more important to get them into people's hands to have them try VR for the first time rather than just have them forget about it and move on. Nvidia clearly could give less of a shi and it seems to be working for them. |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: fallacy on April 26, 2021, 11:09:02 am --- Look at the Quest 2... --- End quote --- Apples to oranges. A high-end graphics card, as we have seen, can remain viable for close to a decade. Given the rate of advancement and intense competition, it would have been financial suicide for FB not to have been able to meet demand with a "lower end" VR system. There are already competitors looking to get a chunk of that market segment. |
| pbj:
--- Quote from: fallacy on April 26, 2021, 09:39:43 am ---When the rates went up everyone stopped paying their mortgages at the same time causing a crash. --- End quote --- That's the biggest lie of 2008. Go take a look at the percentage of foreclosures in the years prior to the crash. Yes, there was an uptick, but the big issue was the banks were leveraged 100:1 on those mortgage backed securities. The effort to spin this as "greedy people buying homes they couldn't afford" is very simplistic and misleading. |
| fallacy:
--- Quote ---The effort to spin this as "greedy people buying homes they couldn't afford" is very simplistic and misleading. --- End quote --- who is spinning what? who are you quoting? |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: pbj on April 26, 2021, 11:48:35 am ---That's the biggest lie of 2008. Go take a look at the percentage of foreclosures in the years prior to the crash. --- End quote --- I don't know about that. This graph doesn't really support what you're saying. --- Quote ---The effort to spin this as "greedy people buying homes they couldn't afford" is very simplistic and misleading. --- End quote --- I don't know if it's a matter of greed on the part of buyers. I see it more as government getting involved in the private sector and doing what always happens. The people who bought into homes they couldn't afford were victims of the intervention, as well as of their own naivety. There's plenty of blame to pass around for that fiasco. |
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