[AlEinstein]

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It’s a fair question to ask.

“Why can’t I buy” is essentially equivalent to “why doesn’t anyone sell”, which is basically “why isn’t there a market for?”

It’s possible to have a conversation around “why isn’t there a market for ARM desktops?” or equivalent but a conversation about “why isn’t there a market for anything but x86” would basically be enumerating the alternatives and examining each.

Nobody is going to open a store aimed at the “anyone but x86” market.

[ken]

It's not that crazy. In other fields, there are stores for "alternative ___". There's a record store a couple blocks from me which sells every physical medium except CD. There's a car dealer which sells cars for every fuel except gasoline. There's many restaurants which serve foods with every ingredient except meat. There's government departments, education departments, and stores which deal in every language except English.

When one way is dominant, it's not uncommon for all the others to get rolled up into an "alternative" grouping. Any one of them by itself would be too small to amount to even a small store, but all of them together are a decent set.

[qubex]

“Why can’t I buy?” ≠ •Why doesn’t anyone sell?” ≠ “Why isn’t there a market for?”, not even close.

Why can’t I buy talent (in the sense of myself being talented at something)?

Because nobody sells it? There’s no market for it? Nah.

I’m an economist but the notion of everything being tradable on a market needs to be curtailed because it simply isn’t true.