From the actual lawsuit documents (emphasis is mine):
Valve’s monopolization and attempted monopolization have the purpose and effect of fixing and inflating prices in the relevant market.
EDIT: Uh.... Exactly what part are we downvoting here? All I did was quote the lawsuit.
That would seem to be price fixing by its very definition. (EDIT: Note that I'm not making any judgment on this class action. The reality of pricing on IsThereAnyDeal would suggest that there is no such rule that prices can't be lower outside of Steam.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing
manufacturers and retailers may conspire to sell at a common "retail" price; set a common minimum sales price, where sellers agree not to discount the sales price below the agreed-to minimum price
And the question is irrelevant. Other companies can still benefit from external price fixing.
Yeah, I'll be curious to see how that all plays out.
Current GPU pricing still seems to have the 2019-2020 25% GPU tariff price baked-in. Note how prices didn't drop 25% when those were rescinded.
Do Nvidia & AMD factor those in their pricing and give consumer a break? Or do they just jack up prices again and aim for mega-profits?
Hell, will the tariffs even happen? At one point, those tariffs were supposedly contingent on U.S. Federal income taxes being abolished, and being used to replace that government tax income. The income tax part seems to have been dropped from the narrative ever since the election.
Steam itself seemingly isn't trying to have a monopoly.
But damned if there isn't a massive, very-loud Internet contingent that desperately wants them to have that monopoly.
If your immediate trigger reaction is seething anger when someone says, "I got a good deal on a game from Epic".... maybe that's not healthy. The "Lord Gaben" meme isn't meant to be taken 100% literally.
It's a pretty decent value when stacked up against RTX 4000 and RX 7000 GPUs.
But we're only a month or two from the next generation of Nvidia & AMD cards.
Those companies could even shit the bed for a second generation in a row on price-to-performance improvements, and the B580 will probably just end up being in-line with those offerings.
Look at all those downvotes from people who took offense to this comment, and WANT Steam to have a monopoly.
Yes, corporations bad. But don't forget: Steam is a corporation, too.
ITAD only lists retailers that are fully legit. No grey market.
I constantly see people saying this.
Explain the pricing on virtually every non-Valve-published game on IsThereAnyDeal at any given time. Steam is almost always being undercut by another legit store selling legit Steam keys.
I'm just thinking something as simple as the app triggering an event that unlatches a compartment that corresponds to that specific time. "It's 12:00. Open the compartment with all the 12:00 meds." You'd probably have to include multi-day support, too (I fill dad's meds a month at a time in this - https://a.co/d/cRw0e93 )
That same event could do things like trigger a visual or audio alarm, too.
My goal would be to make it as hands-off as possible for him. He already finds ways to "cheat" the daily dispensers he has now.
EDIT: Look up Pyxis or Omnicell Dispensers for examples of unlatching compartments. We use these pretty extensively in hospitals.
EDIT 2: Here's a good example (starting around 2:00) showing how the individual compartments unlatch: https://youtu.be/bPJSbexZNC4?t=120
Pharmacist here, struggling to find a way to keep my dad on schedule with his Parkinson's meds.
Adding an option for webhooks at scheduled dispense times would open up some cool opportunities for nerds like us to create automated dispensing units.
Yep. Sometimes I think people forget that the modlog is public here.
Show me the "banning content from Foss projects", @jagged_circle@feddit.nl :
https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&userId=28624
https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment&userId=28624
Honestly, I'm surprised Crash Bandicoot & The Last of Us barely squeaked in at the bottom of the list.
Japanese people really like Japanese devs.