Comment by utopiah
4 hours ago
> free market concept should move the prices down
Kind of a radical idea. I did read about that in economy books way back when at uni... but I don't think it's really happening actual. At least my walled doesn't seem to get it.
PS: it's a joke, free market works when there is competition. VCs are making damn sure it's just enough monopolies that they get wealthier while consumers themselves get milked. Without antitrust actually being enforced, there is no free market.
Prices do go down for electronics:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/price-changes-consumer-go...
That was then and this is now. RAM and storage prices are through the roof, effectively erasing the price drops of the latest 15 years or so.
Seems like a Macbook Neo would be far better than a computer at any price from 15 years ago? What would it have taken to build an equivalent computer?