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> Times and times again, they'll tell you the latter and actually choose the former.

I don't think this is as true anymore.

There was some time between 1990 and 2015(ish?) where physical widget prices was falling faster then the quality decrease, software and computing hardware got better, where the quoted strategy made sense.

Nowadays you will get dropshipped crap (or any service sector equivalent) if you go for the lowest price.