| ▲ | abu_ameena 2 hours ago |
| I see it as a long-term tradeoff on user freedom.
You pay upfront for a capable hardware, you get your services running locally (you don’t pay subscriptions).
Or you buy cheap hardware, you still need the same services “running in some cloud” for $X monthly. X goes up depending on the corporate bottom-line |
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| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| In the history of cloud computing, prices have mostly only come down especially as inference becomes a commodity. Realistically, just looking at Mac prices, the cost of a computer with decent local inference would be around $6000 per person. The world is not moving back to on prem. |
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| ▲ | esseph an hour ago | parent [-] | | > The world is not moving back to on prem. Lol, you should tell my customers (that are moving back on prem) that! You should also tell Microsoft, who just yesterday said they are going back to focusing on local apps. | | |
| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Your customers are an anecdote, now compare that to the publicly reported numbers from AWS, GCP and Azure where they all say the only thing keeping them from growing more is the chip shortage. | | |
| ▲ | esseph an hour ago | parent [-] | | Oh I'm sure they'll continue to have some cloud services, no doubt. But look at VMware for example, even after the insane price increases. Nutanix also seems to be doing quite well. I'm seeing a fair amount of on-prem bare metal k8s too. | | |
| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Again - anecdotes is not data. We have data. That would be about as silly as me citing my own experience as proof that “everyone is moving to AWS” when I work for a company that is exclusively an AWS partner consulting company. |
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