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Kearnstd
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Kearnstd

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How is competition about technology not choice?

I mean if an area has one supermarket it does not matter if its fully mechanical registers or if androids do the shopping for you and the building is automated to the point it looks like something out of Star Wars, That does not mean your town has better competition compared to a town with three different stores.

Competition comes from having a roughly equal choice. If we look at computers AMD and Intel beat each other differently on benchmarks but in real world normal usage its not a big difference and as such both brands have to find ways to make themselves more appealing beyond claiming better technology than each other. Same thing with Nvidia and ATI(aka AMD now). Samsung and Apple are another example of actual competition.

Currently broadband is more like trying to say a 7-11(the telco) is competition for the supermarket when someone wants to do their full week shopping trip. Because not to use a bad pun but when it comes to broadband the phone company is phoning it in when it comes to effort in competing with the cable company.