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idotoday at 1:48 PM1 replyview on HN

    Hardware just depreciates much much faster than fiber
The manfucaturing capacity expanded to meet the demand for new hardware doesn't (as much)

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danaristoday at 2:22 PM

But if the demand drops for six months, the manufacturers are going to scale back production.

If it drops for a year, they're likely to start shedding capacity, one way or another.

This is not an equivalent situation. The vast, vast majority of what's being produced for this bubble is going to be waste once it pops.