I'm not spinning anything. Before you were pointed out to be incorrect you were not shy to verbalize your comments about the same subjects you are now calling distasteful. In fact, you were far lower in this rabbit hole than merely describing a price curve. The subject only became distasteful when you realized that AMD isn't the price moderator you thought was, but in fact, it is being the price- moderated part of the ecosystem.
It is something akin to the feeling people buying FX 9000 series feel. They think they are buying special silicon, when in fact they are buying trash silicon that didn't make to more efficient bins. The premium bins became the FX E series, which not only are more efficient, they overclock higher than FX 9000 series.
I said what I believe within the limits of my understanding. You proposed something which is, I assume, a deeper and more clear understanding. I can accept that, I don't have a competitive bone in my body nor any ego really in relation to an online forum about computer stuff.
What you are expecting and/or looking for is me to backpedal or continue to justify my simplistic position that you can pick apart easily since you have a better understanding of it, and you believe my saying I find it "distasteful" was the start of a weak attempt to distance myself from it once confronted with your superior understanding. This is not the case. I have zero problem with the whole world knowing you understand these things better than I do, nor with being wrong about it. I'm wrong all the time, and I generally welcome it as an opportunity to learn. Except for this time. Since I was being completely honest with the fact that I find business matters distasteful, and I was being diplomatic at that. It's one thing, and this is merely my opinion, to have or share an off-hand opinion such as that if AMD was to fold Intel would raise prices. It is quite another, and here is where I start to get an unpleasant feeling about it, when things are not as they seem and somehow Intel is in fact making AMD sell CPU's cheaper. That smacks of.. Something. And that something makes me uncomfortable and unhappy and life is way too short to dwell on such when it's not required. I really don't want to understand it, and I really do find it distasteful. Honestly. Always have. I'm more than happy to leave that stuff to you or whoever to sort through.
In closing, again, you understand these things better than I.
You probably always will.
I do not deny my previous simplistic opinion or make any excuse for it.
I am in fact happy to be a simpleton in such matters.
I honestly do not want to nor see any compelling reason to understand it further since it does in fact make me unhappy.
That cover it? We good? I don't know what else say. I'm sure we've both done this before at some point in the last twenty years, if you need anything else just tell me and I'll supply it if I can.
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