{"id":11160,"date":"2020-01-07T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2020-01-07T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:34:10","slug":"loving-business-competition-as-a-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/loving-business-competition-as-a-consumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Business Competition As A Consumer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today there was an annual technology event called CES which showcases a bunch of new products ranging from computers to cars. It\u2019s a good indicator on what the near future will look like and what you may want to consider investing in. I was actually really interested in the computer processor race where it was a battle between Intel and the company AMD. For the most part Intel has been dominate, but in the past year AMD seemed like they came out of nowhere to create a product that surpassed Intel both in price and performance.<\/p>\n

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One great picture I felt was this image that demonstrated how a $3,999 processor could essentially beat a $20,000. That\u2019s a huge difference where you would have to be a little crazy not to go with the lower priced option. But what it made me think of is how if there was no competition people would probably pay that $20,000 without really knowing any better. How would you really know right?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why whenever hear people hoping that a large business simply kills every single competitor where they are the only one that exists it makes me wonder if they think about these kinds of scenarios. I have companies that I prefer too of course. But I usually prefer there to be a healthy amount of competition in any industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today there was an annual technology event called CES which showcases a bunch of new products ranging from computers to cars. It\u2019s a good indicator on what the near future will look like and what you may want to consider investing in. I was actually really interested in the computer processor race where it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5953,895,1481],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-competition","tag-consumer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lakeballoon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2U0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}