• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Because it’s only possible to arbitrarily go meaningfully above your cost when you have some established market advantage.

    Luxottica can jack up prices because they own every luxury sunglasses brand on the planet. Star Labs can’t jack up prices because the day they exceed their costs meaningfully, someone else with the same economics will steal their market share.

    The actual cost of doing business is the core factor in determining their price. If they could afford to lower prices, they would do it so they could grow.

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      1 year ago

      Their ‘market advantage’ is appealing to people like you, who are willing to pay more for lesser hardware.

      the day they exceed their costs meaningfully

      This is where you, still, don’t understand what’s going on. I’m sorry. I’m literally tired of spelling it out for you. At this point, you’re either unwilling or incapable of comprehension.

      Goodbye.

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        1 year ago

        From the guy who’s shocked a company offering a small, niche product to a small, niche audience has to charge more per unit than Dell selling a hundred million units to keep their business alive.

        Nice.