I wasn't saying "evil capitalist", just that when the competition is limited you can charge higher prices, this isn't evil unless you have used unethical tactics to enforce some sort of monopoly/oligopoly etc....
The fact that they sell both the made in china model and the USA model shows it is not about building up reserves, as if they wanted to do that they would have higher prices on both models, not selective pricing, thus we are looking for a factor which affects their USA model but not China model.
Development costs are not really a factor here, they specifically say they developed both versions simulatenously, but yes if they didn/t it would be a factor.
They actually back up my first point by giving the reason for the pricing:
"It's the fact that it's a secure supply chain, that you know, staff that's completely auditing every component, which means we're selling to a government security market with all those additional layers that we've added on top."
If you distill this down it is saying that basically securing the supply chain costs more, but also that it adds value. The government is willing to pay a whole lot more for the same product for that extra supply chain security even if it doesn't cost that much more for the manufacturer to produce because no one else can offer something like this.
The fact that they sell both the made in china model and the USA model shows it is not about building up reserves, as if they wanted to do that they would have higher prices on both models, not selective pricing, thus we are looking for a factor which affects their USA model but not China model.
Development costs are not really a factor here, they specifically say they developed both versions simulatenously, but yes if they didn/t it would be a factor.
They actually back up my first point by giving the reason for the pricing: "It's the fact that it's a secure supply chain, that you know, staff that's completely auditing every component, which means we're selling to a government security market with all those additional layers that we've added on top."
If you distill this down it is saying that basically securing the supply chain costs more, but also that it adds value. The government is willing to pay a whole lot more for the same product for that extra supply chain security even if it doesn't cost that much more for the manufacturer to produce because no one else can offer something like this.