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What you've said is true, but it is also true that it sucks when good products go by the wayside because they don't provide sufficient shareholder value.
It absolutely sucks. And it's total bullshit. I don't mean to in any way come across as ok with it. I just think it's important to highlight what's driving things like this, because we very often have in mind that businesses exist to serve customer's needs.
And they do. It's just that consumers aren't their customers. They're in the business of selling stocks and ROI, not consumer products. The consumer products are just how they mine that value for shareholders, and like any miner, they're always going to be seekin gout the richest veins.
We deserve an Intel, or an AMD, or a whoever, that has a mission of creating quality and accessible products for the public. But under our current set of systems, we're never going to get that, because these organizations and industries don't work for us.
We're just a resource to them, to be exploited for their real customers.