SSDs are getting more expensive again because the biggest NAND supplier has throttled production to half its previous output

And where the leader goes, so the rest of the mob is likely to follow.

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It blows my mind that these companies can get away with manufacturing artificial scarcity, as an alternate means to price gouge.
- The old question: still a cartel or already a monopoly?
  
  If a single company can unilaterally dictate the price of a thing simply because they control a big enough piece of the market… yeah. That’s a monopoly.
A tale as old as time, one day it will be dirt cheap again