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Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck
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Ironically, leveraging this kind of tactic is what allowed Google, Amazon and Apple and Microsoft to become as huge as they did, as fast as they did.
Got a whole bunch of lines of business that can functionally subsidize other ventures, so they can make a push for market share.
But of course this doesn't take too long to turn your whole economy into oligopoly, and thus your society into oligarchy... at best.
I... I think Gabe really just isn't as fundamentally awful of a person as most other tech company heads.
Yeah, he's got a yacht, but he could be so, so much fucking worse...