| ▲ | bilekas 3 hours ago | |
> "Personal Computing" is going to become a luxury of the past, and we’ll all be terminal-renters in someone else's data center. This is the game plan of course, why have customers pay one time for hardware when they can have you constantly feed them money over the long term. Shareholders want this model. It started with planned obsolescence, now this new model is the natural progression.. There is no obsolescence even in discussion when you're only option is to rent a service, that the provider has no incentive to even make competitive. I really feel this will be China's moment to flood the market with hardware and improve their quality over time. | ||
| ▲ | actionfromafar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
"I think there is a world market for maybe five c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶s̶" compute centers. | ||