Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873893

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Once when I was trying to join a pickleball class they required an app to sign up. There was no web, email, phone, or paper based way to do the thing. I emailed them to suggest they use a ticketing system that does not require the app because many people don't want to install an app, and then I signed up for pickleball at a different club that didn't require an app.

One of our bank accounts has an authenticator which is a proprietary app. I run that on an old tablet so I don't have to run it on my phone.

This was inconvenient and I do understand that this is happening to people more and more. There is often a less convenient option to do the thing though, and I think it's good to try to use the less convenient option and tell organisations that you don't want to use an app. Basic resistance 101. Maybe people have forgotten how to be inconvenienced for the sake of principles.

Denmark and it's laws sound particularly difficult.

Edit: I realise it is a privilege to be able to take the inconvenient option and resist installing apps. If you are not able to resist because of your circumstances, I will continue to resist for you.

1. Don't install any proprietary apps - open source only. 99% of these problems and ads go away. 2. Use an ad blocker in a browser that lets you use one. 3. Do not allow any notification except literally urgent things like a phone call or message from your partner.

If you do these things then the phone once again becomes a tool that serves you.

Yes. Non-HBM Samsung supply going from 60% to 20% will cause prices to increase, which will cause increased production of non-HBM, and then prices will fall (below where they currently are).

You said:

> the market doesn't fit the issue.

I presume you meant "fix" not "fit". You are wrong that the market will not fix the issue. There are literally millions of observed cases across many markets of increased demand (or decreased supply) leading to higher prices leading to increased supply leading to lower prices, which is why it's a fundamental law of economics.

The price of RAM will fall.

No. Please take a look at the unit price for hard drive storage 10 years ago as a percentage of what it is today.

Yes, only a small number of companies produce memory because of capital requirements and complexity. When prices go up both of those things become less of a problem for investors who can see better return for lower risk on that high capital investment. They will then invest in production to capture those returns. This is literally the exact reason Samsung are doubling supply of this particular type of memory.

High prices will fix the shortage.

More HBM4 will drive the price of it down. That will make it less profitable to produce. That will mean firms shift some production back to more profitable "consumer" RAM. Increased supply will lead to lower prices.

A shortage is always followed by a glut.