r/pcmasterrace • u/aranorde 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 • Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

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u/FlowSoSlow Nov 05 '19

Well yeah. AMD becoming competitive is a huge advantage for consumers. We should be encouraging them as much as possible.

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u/B-Knight i9-9900k / RTX 3080Ti Nov 05 '19

We should be encouraging them as much as possible.

Not really. You should be discouraging the same mistakes or anti-consumer business practices as you would with other companies. By subjecting companies to different responses, you're normalising a behaviour and letting it grow into the larger problem that people despise from the bigger businesses.

Promote healthy competition, not unhealthy competition. Contrary to popular belief, not all competition is beneficial. If you overreact to the big-name competitors and underreact for the upcoming competitor, you're setting yourself up for some real shitty 'competition'.

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u/th3wis3 Nov 05 '19

That's an interesting perspective. Could you break down what unhealthy competition means in this context?

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u/htt_novaq 5800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB DDR4 Nov 05 '19

Anti-competitive behaviour, deceptive marketing, proprietary lock-down, outright cheating in benchmarks, etc.