▲ 933 ▼ Thank you guys, keep the good work (lemmy.world) submitted 1 week ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (3 children) The history of consumer computing is just looking at all the different ways Nvidia has figured out how to fuck said consumers over permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 14 points 1 week ago Remember when we had to have a secondary nvidia GPU just to play games? Remember all of the fucky hacks, install orders, and workarounds we needed to make it work when our main GPU was an AMD card? Or when it was leaked for the 3rd time that nvidia was paying devs to make their game run worse on AMD hardware? permalink fedilink source parent [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 child) I don't think they really are out to fuck consumers so much as they are an after after thought. The consumer space just isn't able to pay what companies are paying and so in the words of Don Draper - 'I don't think about you at all' What is a bit of a dick move is their consumer division paying lip service and pretending like they matter to the company at all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) I think it's rather telling that there's not a single company that's touching any of these currently insanely overpriced products and going, you know? I think I'm going to prioritize the human customers over the business customers. Sure, we may not make as much money, but we would have truckloads of goodwill and generate thousands of lifelong customers. And I understand the business reasoning for that, but great businesses are not built by bean counters any more than wars are decided by bullet rations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago Man... The way I see it is if you nail down a small corner of the market, you've won. Like yeah, you've only got 15%, but holy wah you have 15% all to yourself and that 15% is dedicated to you. That's a great outcome. Probably why I'm not a CEO. permalink fedilink source parent [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago Well, I guess I'll just buy my hardware from a different supplie- sound of twin-engine B-52 Tariff Bomber zooming overhead, as wallet buster economic sanctions whistle towards their targets permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 14 points 1 week ago Remember when we had to have a secondary nvidia GPU just to play games? Remember all of the fucky hacks, install orders, and workarounds we needed to make it work when our main GPU was an AMD card? Or when it was leaked for the 3rd time that nvidia was paying devs to make their game run worse on AMD hardware? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 child) I don't think they really are out to fuck consumers so much as they are an after after thought. The consumer space just isn't able to pay what companies are paying and so in the words of Don Draper - 'I don't think about you at all' What is a bit of a dick move is their consumer division paying lip service and pretending like they matter to the company at all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) I think it's rather telling that there's not a single company that's touching any of these currently insanely overpriced products and going, you know? I think I'm going to prioritize the human customers over the business customers. Sure, we may not make as much money, but we would have truckloads of goodwill and generate thousands of lifelong customers. And I understand the business reasoning for that, but great businesses are not built by bean counters any more than wars are decided by bullet rations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago Man... The way I see it is if you nail down a small corner of the market, you've won. Like yeah, you've only got 15%, but holy wah you have 15% all to yourself and that 15% is dedicated to you. That's a great outcome. Probably why I'm not a CEO. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) I think it's rather telling that there's not a single company that's touching any of these currently insanely overpriced products and going, you know? I think I'm going to prioritize the human customers over the business customers. Sure, we may not make as much money, but we would have truckloads of goodwill and generate thousands of lifelong customers. And I understand the business reasoning for that, but great businesses are not built by bean counters any more than wars are decided by bullet rations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago Man... The way I see it is if you nail down a small corner of the market, you've won. Like yeah, you've only got 15%, but holy wah you have 15% all to yourself and that 15% is dedicated to you. That's a great outcome. Probably why I'm not a CEO. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago Man... The way I see it is if you nail down a small corner of the market, you've won. Like yeah, you've only got 15%, but holy wah you have 15% all to yourself and that 15% is dedicated to you. That's a great outcome. Probably why I'm not a CEO. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago Well, I guess I'll just buy my hardware from a different supplie- sound of twin-engine B-52 Tariff Bomber zooming overhead, as wallet buster economic sanctions whistle towards their targets permalink fedilink source parent
