With the big data technology, it becomes much easier to the retailers to practice price discrimination. Please read the Washington Post article "If you use a Mac or an Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more" published in 2014. Any idea to explain why the operation system you use matters? What strategy that we have learned in class do they use? If the government want to protect the benefits of the customers, meaning allow them to take more surplus, what is your suggestions? (This is an open question)
With the big data technology, it becomes much easier to the retailers to practice price discrimination. Please read the Washington Post article "If you use a Mac or an Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more" published in 2014. Any idea to explain why the operation system you use matters? What strategy that we have learned in class do they use? If the government want to protect the benefits of the customers, meaning allow them to take more surplus, what is your suggestions? (This is an open question)
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Transcribed Image Text:With the big data technology, it becomes much easier to the retailers to practice price
discrimination. Please read the Washington Post article "If you use a Mac or an Android,
e-commerce sites may be charging you more" published in 2014.
Any idea to explain why the operation system you use matters? What strategy that we
have learned in class do they use? If the government want to protect the benefits of the
customers, meaning allow them to take more surplus, what is your suggestions? (This is
an open question)
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