The American obsession with low-priced products — especially electronics — is actually bad for the individual consumer. According to one expert, the race to the bottom cramps innovation, speeds the decline of successful industries and alters our expectations of product quality. Are thinning margins and the economics of cheap ruining our attitudes? This month, I added my contribution to ZDNet’s “Dead-finger Tech” series with Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro laptop , and an interesting discu
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