The genesis of the shorter back-to-school purchase cycle is a consequence of increased levels of consumer expectations, retailers having spent more than a decade teaching consumers they can get something cheaper if they just wait.
In France, too, Disney's proposal to construct a theme park outside Paris was scorned by intellectuals, who felt that by remaking the past the company was replacing it with something cheaper and inferior, but Disney went ahead anyway.
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Amazon, however, is less a killer--it merely provides a way of doing something faster and cheaper.
And the more you produce of something, the cheaper it gets, right?
Those people over there, whether they be in the house next door, a city or county over or on the other side of the world are able to make something better and cheaper than I can.
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It is also something like a third cheaper for the British government to borrow than for the French administration (and see my note of Friday for more on this disparity).
Something peripheral for which alternatives can be readily found is easier and cheaper to do without than something at the heart of industrial life.
Amazon, however, is less a killer--it merely provides a way of doing something faster, better, cheaper.
Sure, making 1 million makes each one cheaper than making 100 of something.
This makes the bikes a bit cheaper unless you want to change something, like the wheels, in which case you might have to buy all the parts separately.
But in the next decade, EDS hopes, it will win work ripping out old, rigid technology and replacing it with something more modern, flexible, easily linked and cheaper to run.
Of course, any 1080p support at all is a plus over the 720p-only Apple TV, but we'd be remiss if we didn't note that the Xbox 360 offers instant-on 1080p Zune video rentals -- Roku doesn't provide the content and its boxes are cheaper, yes, but it's something to think about if you're in the market.
He is likely to come cheaper than borderline star-powerhouses Tyson Chandler and Marc Gasol, something many teams will be interested in.
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Something around the size and cost of a current generation smartphone (although of course, cheaper is better).
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