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Originally Posted by soilwork
Could you clearly state what your claim is in your own words without citing others? I think I already refuted what I think it is your claim, but you seem to raise the same issue all over again.
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Citing others is an important feature to me
And if I guess what I think you said, I refuse your refute.
If you only look at the relative "utility" (btw: I also refute the utility concept as a tautologic issue, but nevertheless) : The "I get more of the same money next year than this year" argument, *is* an infinite regress absurdum, because you can continue this thought process year after year. (under the condition we don't expect the market to fall apart or other catastrophes ruining economy.)
What far more holds true is your "willingness to pay" which is an individual issue. If current devices are too expensive for you, than don't buy one. When market evolves you might get your time in future... If you have something better to do with the money, do something better with it. If you think the "utility" you get by buying an iLiad is worth the 650€, then buy one, its really that simple. Yes I know you will refute this, we can go more complicated than that... like I expect to use the device 4 years, before I'll buy a better product from the market. So for 1 year the iLiad costs me 210€ or 17€ per month. Again the personal question when new devices comes out is: using the iLiad one year against having nothing one year worth me 210€? Or will the 3 years overlapping of better use when a new device will be able to do more until I buy the next device compensate that? How much is uncertainty involved in all that?
As Harry I will say this is an just now early-adopter market. If you want to belong to the early adopters do, its cool to once be one of the first of a new generation of devices, but be aware that it comes with drawbacks..
Really we can argue now about utility, marginal utility on and on, but we cannot tell somebody else what to do, it is his or hers personal decision.