The beauty of the free market and supply and demand is that these will become 1/10th of the price in a relatively short period of time.
Free markets FTW!
The consumer electronics industry is one industry in which government regulation is rather sparse.... which is why prices fall so rapidly as technology increases.
Everything the government gets its hands all over becomes more expensive and screwed up. Think cars (CAFE standards, democrat controlled unions), energy (taxing oil production from every stage from discovery, refinement, delivery, and sales. Also not allowing them to build new refineries), banking (forcing institutions to make loans to people who can't afford them) Schools (limiting access to charter schools which cuts off competition which would force schools to improve) Social Security (robbed into bankruptcy) Health Care (medicaid is billions if not trillions of dollars in the red)
Can't wait until the government wants to force ridiculous energy consumption standards on consumer electronics devices. That oughta kill innovation for what we want and the government will instead become the consumer for which even consumer electronics are built.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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The beauty of the free market and supply and demand is that these will become 1/10th of the price in a relatively short period of time.
Free markets FTW!
The consumer electronics industry is one industry in which government regulation is rather sparse.... which is why prices fall so rapidly as technology increases.
Everything the government gets its hands all over becomes more expensive and screwed up. Think cars (CAFE standards, democrat controlled unions), energy (taxing oil production from every stage from discovery, refinement, delivery, and sales. Also not allowing them to build new refineries), banking (forcing institutions to make loans to people who can't afford them) Schools (limiting access to charter schools which cuts off competition which would force schools to improve) Social Security (robbed into bankruptcy) Health Care (medicaid is billions if not trillions of dollars in the red)
Can't wait until the government wants to force ridiculous energy consumption standards on consumer electronics devices. That oughta kill innovation for what we want and the government will instead become the consumer for which even consumer electronics are built.