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Roy Schestowitz

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Nov 28, 2011, 2:52:45 PM11/28/11
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Panasonic Lumix Android phones coming spring 2012

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| Panasonic is set to bring its Lumix cameraphone range of smartphones to the UK
| and Europe in 2012, with the company eyeing up a spring launch.
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| This is according to the Nikkei business daily, which is reporting that
| Panasonic is currently in talks with "a major telecoms firm".
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http://www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/panasonic-lumix-android-phones-coming-spring-2012-1043738
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chrisv

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Nov 28, 2011, 3:26:02 PM11/28/11
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>Panasonic Lumix Android phones coming spring 2012
>
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>| Panasonic is set to bring its Lumix cameraphone range of smartphones to the UK
>| and Europe in 2012, with the company eyeing up a spring launch.
>|
>| This is according to the Nikkei business daily, which is reporting that
>| Panasonic is currently in talks with "a major telecoms firm".
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Well, why isn't Panasonic put-off by the fact that some other company
might try to make and sell the same type of product for less?

According to shitwitted trolls, if a market is free and open, all the
companies can do is compete on price, so there is inevitably a "race
to the bottom", providing only poor-quality products to the consumer.

But, now that I think of it, Panasonic makes money making
*high-quality* products in *many* different markets, from televisions
to batteries to vacuum cleaners.

Why has there been no "race to the bottom" in those markets?

Could it be, just maybe, that free-market forces ensure that products
must reasonably satisfy and provide good value to the consumer, as
well as be economically viable to produce?

Could it be, just maybe, that the needs of most markets are best-met
by having a broad range of product choices, at different price,
performance, feature-set, and quality levels?

Roy Schestowitz

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Nov 28, 2011, 3:39:56 PM11/28/11
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____/ chrisv on Monday 28 Nov 2011 20:26 : \____
When sub-notebooks came out there was a race to the bottom
and Windows started to cost $0 (or negative pricing), so Microsoft had
to kill sub-notebooks with tricks like hardware limitations,
hobbling device.

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chrisv

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Nov 28, 2011, 3:58:46 PM11/28/11
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>> According to shitwitted trolls, if a market is free and open, all the
>> companies can do is compete on price, so there is inevitably a "race
>> to the bottom", providing only poor-quality products to the consumer.
>>
>> But, now that I think of it, Panasonic makes money making
>> *high-quality* products in *many* different markets, from televisions
>> to batteries to vacuum cleaners.
>>
>> Why has there been no "race to the bottom" in those markets?
>>
>> Could it be, just maybe, that free-market forces ensure that products
>> must reasonably satisfy and provide good value to the consumer, as
>> well as be economically viable to produce?
>>
>> Could it be, just maybe, that the needs of most markets are best-met
>> by having a broad range of product choices, at different price,
>> performance, feature-set, and quality levels?
>
>When sub-notebooks came out there was a race to the bottom

Not a race to the "bottom", but a race to a highly competitive market
with thinner profit margins than what M$ considers acceptable.

>and Windows started to cost $0 (or negative pricing), so Microsoft had
>to kill sub-notebooks with tricks like hardware limitations,
>hobbling device.

That market was far from free and open, of course, being dominated by
a malevolent monopolist with the power to "incentify" other companies
right out of the market.

Roy Schestowitz

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Nov 28, 2011, 5:58:06 PM11/28/11
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____/ chrisv on Monday 28 Nov 2011 20:58 : \____

>>When sub-notebooks came out there was a race to the bottom
>
> Not a race to the "bottom", but a race to a highly competitive market
> with thinner profit margins than what M$ considers acceptable.
>
>>and Windows started to cost $0 (or negative pricing), so Microsoft had
>>to kill sub-notebooks with tricks like hardware limitations,
>>hobbling device.
>
> That market was far from free and open, of course, being dominated by
> a malevolent monopolist with the power to "incentify" other companies
> right out of the market.

Indeed, it's about fair competition, not just Free software. Monopolists
slow down technological progress and kill jobs.

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~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz, Research Fellow
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU/Linux administration | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Editor @ http://techrights.org & Broadcaster @ http://bytesmedia.co.uk/
Managing partner @ http://scifitness.co.uk & http://iuron.com
GPL-licensed 3-D Othello @ http://othellomaster.com
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