Let me first confess that I know I have no idea how to run a company, but engaging in these conversations even if I get a bashing like the one on top are really good learning experience. I want to thank BBoy for taking the time to respond to my many ramblings.
Some points that I want to defend:
I feel that in the last years (before ARM and the whole smartphone thing) Intel didn't get any real competition from AMD and that is precisely what left them vulnerable to ARM. Living around many people working at Intel factory, I heard rumors that they would hold back some new developments because they would make more money doing incremental steps than just throwing out the best they could make. Now, and again this is my naive perception, I felt that Intel kept AMD in business only to avoid anti-trust laws in the US. Also, I noticed that in the old times a CPU would be half as fast from one year to the other, the last time I exchanged my 3 year old computer for the top of the line i7 I didn't really see the difference even though I used the same version of Ubuntu. Yeap Intel has done A LOT, but I wonder what they would have accomplished with real competition, in that sense I called them "lazy", but of course I know there IS a reason why they never had competition, they we very very good.
"Yeah, that worked out for HP real well...": I thought it had? I honestly don't know, I just noticed that all printer makers suddenly dropped the printer costs and relied on expendables, not sure if it was a good strategy in the end but it certainly feels like nobody can compete with this strategy. I know printing is still like 20% of HP's market but that people are printing less nowadays because of email, there's also some macro-economic forces so it is really complicated to assess if the strategy worked, but I think it did keep them in the game as they would not have been competitive otherwise. Maybe if IT changes to consumables, Illumina would just do the same and they would have no gain. Still it would be really cool for us users though...
Is it me or is IT very good in creating Hype, 120k runs, but only like 300 submitted to SRA? If that is true for MiSeq, that means there are about 12M MiSeq runs no?
Some points that I want to defend:
I feel that in the last years (before ARM and the whole smartphone thing) Intel didn't get any real competition from AMD and that is precisely what left them vulnerable to ARM. Living around many people working at Intel factory, I heard rumors that they would hold back some new developments because they would make more money doing incremental steps than just throwing out the best they could make. Now, and again this is my naive perception, I felt that Intel kept AMD in business only to avoid anti-trust laws in the US. Also, I noticed that in the old times a CPU would be half as fast from one year to the other, the last time I exchanged my 3 year old computer for the top of the line i7 I didn't really see the difference even though I used the same version of Ubuntu. Yeap Intel has done A LOT, but I wonder what they would have accomplished with real competition, in that sense I called them "lazy", but of course I know there IS a reason why they never had competition, they we very very good.
"Yeah, that worked out for HP real well...": I thought it had? I honestly don't know, I just noticed that all printer makers suddenly dropped the printer costs and relied on expendables, not sure if it was a good strategy in the end but it certainly feels like nobody can compete with this strategy. I know printing is still like 20% of HP's market but that people are printing less nowadays because of email, there's also some macro-economic forces so it is really complicated to assess if the strategy worked, but I think it did keep them in the game as they would not have been competitive otherwise. Maybe if IT changes to consumables, Illumina would just do the same and they would have no gain. Still it would be really cool for us users though...
Is it me or is IT very good in creating Hype, 120k runs, but only like 300 submitted to SRA? If that is true for MiSeq, that means there are about 12M MiSeq runs no?
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