We’ve seen with other industries that the prices never come back down once they’ve gone up.
That said, expensive RAM kits (and a lot of tech in general) are not exactly a mandatory purchase for many people like food is. Those that can stop buying expensive electronics certainly will once the price is too high.
Grocery companies price gouge and shrinkflate because their customers don’t really have a choice other than to starve. What are tech companies going to do when customers go an increasing amount of years between purchases?
For consumers, sure, RAM modules aren’t something people buy in general. But every device needs memory, RAM and flash. Cars, smartphones, business machies, fucking tv’s need them today.
I work for a medical startup and we had to pay scalper prices for the NAND flash chips for the first batch of our devices because of a shortage, because the specific model we need is only made by Micron and their fabs are too busy making stuff for datacenters.
We’ve seen with other industries that the prices never come back down once they’ve gone up.
That said, expensive RAM kits (and a lot of tech in general) are not exactly a mandatory purchase for many people like food is. Those that can stop buying expensive electronics certainly will once the price is too high.
Grocery companies price gouge and shrinkflate because their customers don’t really have a choice other than to starve. What are tech companies going to do when customers go an increasing amount of years between purchases?
Ignore them and continue selling almost exclusively to businesses and manufacturers?
For consumers, sure, RAM modules aren’t something people buy in general. But every device needs memory, RAM and flash. Cars, smartphones, business machies, fucking tv’s need them today.
I work for a medical startup and we had to pay scalper prices for the NAND flash chips for the first batch of our devices because of a shortage, because the specific model we need is only made by Micron and their fabs are too busy making stuff for datacenters.