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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure these companies are paying attention to RAM and CPU costs and second guessing the value in adding them to these appliances. I don’t need a source. It’s common sense.

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While it may be common sense, I could also see "hey just jack up the price, we need the data points for advertising/data brokers"

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i wonder how sustainable just constantly rising prices would really be at this point.

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's sustainable as long as the suckers keep buying and paying

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

where the fuck are suckers getting all that money from

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Loans in form of credit. A vast proportion of adults in developed nations are in personal debt, ignore home, education and car loans

People have not been taught how to be adults, manage a budget and they end up trading their future financial security for momentary gains