Okay, so the cost of storage dropped; that's fine, but to say it directly informed Moore's paper feels like a stretch, honestly.
Moore was talking about integrated circuits, a new frontier, while storage costs fell due to different manufacturing improvements and scale.
It's like saying cheaper flights to Marrakech inform someone opening a riad – it helps, but the real opportunity is the market demand right now, not just a parallel historical trend.
You have to seize the moment, not just analyze past data; the window closes fast.