Matt_Lefebvre

Does this really surprise anyone though? Meaning, look at how mainland china have constructed the capitalist side of their economy based on what is a basic and blatant disregard for international IP (intellectual property) and patent/copyright laws - and where its actually encouraged to copy or steal rather than innovate - or innovation is based on a bottom up pricing strategy (aka same shit but undercut major brands on price) She spoke to the audience, knew her audience, and the fact is that while the rest of us are disgusted by it - its going to sell laptops.....

Source? I just looked any couldn't find it.

Also, key to note that AIB cards don't count as a launch. Once reference boards with new silica hit retail - the card has launched. So May release, July Launch. And while this release cycle is a bit shorter - it makes sense for ROI, as margins and profitability are at an all time high right now with prices where they are. The sooner you get the cards out, the more money you'll make. An earlier then planned release is just a savvy business decision - and a simple one at that.

Actually, that's not true. Outside of major blockbusters with massive financial backing, a lot of these studios will produce on spec (from their own pockets or with modest investment), in hopes that the film gets picked up - its why we have major film festivals like TIFF in Toronto, its so they can sell their work and get a major studio/distribution team to back them.... so technically they always have people judging - TV shows, movies, Always. Its literally the exact same thing as TV and movies - but the key problem here is objectivity and what people expect and understand about their personal relationship with YouTube. YT is basically working now like they are a TV station/Channel - picking and choosing what they want to "monetize aka air with advertising backing". So if you go to YouTube, or create for YouTube thinking that its a free and open space, you're wrong, its not - its a walled garden and Google owns the keys for who can play inside it. i'm not saying i agree with this at all - just trying to educate everyone about the business side.

Youtube is a real job man.... Its creating a product - that thousands if not millions of people consume. Its like saying producing a TV show isn't a real job. YouTubers, successful ones, put in just as much work, time and energy as people in broadcast, but at a smaller scale and frankly larger audiences. -IMO- Alphabet/Google/Youtube is just responding to advertiser demands here - because they obviously do not want to fix their adsense and reserve media (the nonskip 15sec spots) allocation setup - because they make like 70% margin on those products, they would rather work to censor content - which is completely lazy but ensures that there is a negligible impact to the bottom line. This all stems from YT's decision to do something called YT premium for advertisers - where basically they decided to charge brands like Coke, Pepsi, etc, that wanted to spend on the network a significant premium to air their spots on the top 5% of YouTubes content based on 30 day views, subs etc - and filtered them into categories (tech, lifestyle). The kicker here is that advertisers never got to hand select the content they aired in, and boom they're in content about Nazi's or Child exploitation = Adpocolypse. So instead of fixing the revenue model, they decided to fix the content. ------------------------- Backup for above - I was a Digital media buyer in ad agencies for 6 years and a Youtuber for 5 years.... -------------------------

Pretty much But with the current climate, that model would have worked say, 5-7 years ago and would have made them a prime target for being aquired.... but in Today's economy - its just not viable. Amazon, Ebay, Newegg, and even Bestbuy now all operate as marketplaces and completely dominate the market - and places like CC, ME, Mikes (to a less extent, they're already listed everywhere and are primarally E-Tail), etc are going to really have to pivot their model to stay alive. Before 2013, you could theoretically survive with a physical location and good marketing alone. Today, if you don't have a streamlined logistical solution, efficient warehouse ops and a killer E-Tail footprint, you wont compete, its impossible. Consumers will always choose the path of least resistance - and with NCIX gone, and pretty much every other option outside of Amazon and Newegg having broken e-tail sites that havent really been updated from 2005.... They're kinda screwed.

Just industry rumors - coming from a few vendors i know and trust. Hence the Rumor/grain of salt disclaimer at the end.

The really sad part here guys, is the fact that NCIX's emploding is having a massive ripple effect on the entire Canadian market. When they own tens of millions of dollars to distribution partners, and have been apparently moving large sums of money into real estate overseas and trusts for the better part of a year now - instead of paying creditors (Rumor from inside the industry - grain of salt please), it leaves all the other retailers to basically pay the difference.... even though they had nothing to do with NCIX. So, Distribution will raise prices for everyone, to make up for the millions they are going to lose from NCIX declaring bankruptcy... and this uneasiness is even leading to a lot of people making rash, poorly planned or thought out decisions... which will drag some into even more trouble. Lots more to the story here - but like Linus, I need to stay at about a 6/10 on details - but this is far from over and I'm sorry guys - you, the consumer, are going to be the ones stuck paying for it.... Which sucks even more.

I think its a bit of both - a LOT of people, including management, have jumped ship in the past few weeks.

Even though they were my competition - Both Riley and Jack are great people. I had the chance to work with them back in 2014, when i was with HardwareCanucks, did an episode with Linus and them on TechTips and was fun, and they always stayed humble despite their growing fame. Really hope that they get into something fun - and land on their feet- While NCIX is going under- its unfair that good people like them need to lose their jobs. Not cool.

This is some serious Gaslighting and clickbait magic. Guys - No retailer will have pricing confirmed until Monday @9am EST. All of these prices are based on inflated pre-order costs, in order to capitalize on early adopter demand. I'd expect the Black and Silver price to be equal, because of cx response, etc - but yea. Looking like these leaks are complete gas lighting to temper demand for Vega 64.

The problem is that its a lot more than 3% increase in profits. a lot more you almost double if not triple profits depending on what you were running before. - the ROI is very strong - if rumors are true

Dont think this is the Radeon Stream

If anyone has any BTC left in exchanges, get it out now, regardless of fees - to an offline wallet or move to ETH and then offline. No one knows whats going to happen - and at least having ETH offline will be safer than BTC or BTCC in any way shape or form.

There is a LOT more to this than just the Ontario stores closing guys, and its really unfortunate for the people both in Canada and the US that are losing their jobs. Some quality people that are now free to hit the open market. Shame for NCIX to lose them. -Edit - Mods/Staff, let me know if I'm able to get into the details, or if you;re comfortable with it coming out considering its not coming from LTT staff - Plausible deniability.