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Originally Posted by j.p.s
And stupidity is still stupidity. If the BPH have learned their lesson, why the current no holds barred fight to reestablish agency?
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Whoa.
I didn't say they learned their lesson.
Grudgingly inching prices down is no cure for what ails them. Which is they think that everybody else has to bow before them, no matter how stupid, counterproductive, and damaging their policies.
I'm hardly a fan.
In the tug of war of free markets even the stupidest of stupid execs will yield a few inches without changing their stripes. "Live to collude another day" is their mantra.
They do, however, have an advantage over hardware guys who can't afford to dig in their heels very long. If the market tells a hardware vendor their product is inadequate or mis-priced, they have to swallow their pride and drop the price. (Most recently, Amazon with the Fire phone.)
If the Nexus 6 is a miss, Google will know it real soon.