| ▲ | barrkel 9 hours ago | |
Economics teaches us that a big difference between cost and price attracts competition which should make the price trend towards the cost. | ||
| ▲ | dns_snek 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Practice taught me that that "should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here and it's often not the case, even across long time periods (years) that should allow competitors to emerge. For example I calculated the cost of a solar install to be approximately: Material + Labour + Generous overhead + Very tidy profit = 10,000€ In practice I keep getting offers for ~14,000€, which will be reduced to 10,000€ with a government subsidy and my request for an itemized invoice is always met with radio silence. | ||
| ▲ | ncruces 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Only if the barrier of entry is low. Which it won't be, if at every turn you choose the hyperscaler. | ||
| ▲ | stingraycharles 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
If this is the case, cheap bandwidth for AWS, when? | ||
| ▲ | _bohm 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
A big difference between cost and price is often won at the expense of many years of concerted R&D, though | ||
| ▲ | conductr 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Economics has a lot of other lessons teaching us why prices of major clouds have remained somewhat expensive relative to cost | ||
| ▲ | _el1s7 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Exactly. | ||