"Can't be priced rationally" is your gloss on the phenomenon. "Can't be priced optimally without deliberate product-hobbling" is 'mine' ...
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... which is to say the industry's (ICT, and now it seems electric cars). ...
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... Based on practical hypothesis that, in the short-term, technological improvement can out-run market absorption capacity. ...
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(this can only be true if demand curves for high-end chips suddenly don't work like anyone else's demand curves)
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I don't see that. There's no problem with the market for high-end chips. It's the low-end of the market that drives the phenomenon. ...
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... It's the mass-market (demand) bottleneck for state-of-the-art technological capacities that induces this strategy ...
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... of temporarily gearing the product down to the qualitative threshold for which there's effective demand. ... i.e. ...
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... Not gratuitously giving away that which already locally, and later generally, will be paid for.
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If high-end demand is normal, no such bottleneck exists. Selling at a middling price gets middling+ sales, for more net profit.
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Indeed, if instead selling to retail, they auctioned off the earlier units, they could segment AND not vandalize their own devices.
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How confident are you that there's no emotional reaction to the techno-crippling thing? It would be a noble enough cognitive disorder. ...
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... But still an error. Given a retarded market, it's better to rein-back techno-capacity at the consumer end than at the production end.
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I certainly didn't go through all this math because I was confident in my conclusion.
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