Nvidia Threatens to Become A Monopoly

[Picao84]

So, nobody has any answer to apparent contradiction of the OP:

People used to say the same thing about intel CPUs and AMD CPUs. (We must support AMD or intel will rob us)

Yet prices of CPUs have only dropped, and CPUs have only gotten better, since intel re-established dominance in 2006. intel have raised their market share from 74% to 90%+ in that time, and no sane person has any reason to buy a current AMD CPU.

Yet intel offers a wide range of products from $100-$300 that offer better performance than anything else on the planet, during times when a tank of gas or a decent dinner for two has often cost $100..

Even Nvidia, the subject of the thread, released their GTX970 at $329 when they knew it was better than every AMD GPU on the planet. (some of which cost much more- so Nvidia did not price based on performance/value- they priced where they thought they would sell product fast)

The only conclusion I can draw is some people want to encourage people to buy inferior AMD parts. Given what happened when intel established virtual monopoly in the CPU market, and my knowledge of business/economics (hold BS-Business), I'm personally not very worried about what happens to AMD in the GPU market.

Last things I say on this thread:
1) You keep trying to compare what is not comparable (Intel is facing indirect competition from ARM because of the trends changing from PC/Laptops to Tablets/Phones; none of that is happening with nVIDIA.. mobile gaming is casual at best). For someone who hold a BS-Business, your so-called analyses are pretty poor, since you try to mix companies, from different sectors, in different contexts, in the same bag. Plus you keep ignoring facts that do not agree with your theory.
2) For someone who holds a BS-Business its very strange for me to have to explain what a "spinoff" is, since you read it as what ATI did, selling its mobile unit to Qualcomm (on the thread about Tegra)
3) Good try to turn this thread into nVIDIA vs AMD bullshit. My Core i5 4590 + my GTX750Ti sitting here next to me do not agree. Again, if you hold a BS-Business, you should know there are other ways to deal with a monopoly, which do not involve helping the underdog. The underdog is the underdog for a reason: it could not compete and throwing money at it would not help either.
4) Lets see in two years, when AMD is probably no more, how will nVIDIA act, if not "threatened" by any other company, shall we?