Except cloud services won over local-first apps.

> Put all of these trends together, and I think that in 10-15 years, we are going to have consumer PCs (and phones!) doing

I'm not even sure in 10-15 years whether we're still going to have consumer PCs, or PCs at all.

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kmaitreys 19 hours ago | parent [-]

I have similar thoughts.

To those who feel on the contrary, I would genuinely like to understand why average consumer won't be priced out of hardware? The silicon industry is already quite centralised. Everywhere we already see the concept of ownership disappearing.

It's quite difficult for me to visualise a non-dystopian future where our PCs are just mere screens and every compute happens on a remote cloud, owned by some corporation, charging you subscription fees to even add and multiply numbers.

I would be the happiest if this (perhaps the most) pessimistic scenario doesn't pan out, but I can't deny that it feels like that's where we are heading.

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kaffekaka 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We are heading for Evil Startrek.

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orangecat 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm actually kind of surprised that hasn't happened by now even ignoring AI. Governments and marketers would love to be able to spy on literally everything you do, the copyright cartels would finally achieve their fantasy of full control over all hardware, and there really are benefits that it could offer to users (zero-effort backups, transparent access from anywhere, cost savings from dynamically switching from a single core for emails to many cores and a fast GPU for gaming).

	▲	diabllicseagull 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		we have already gone through multiple cycles of remote and edge compute (mainframe to pc, pc to cloud, cloud to phone). as the software/hardware landscape changes, the economics of what can be run on what device will change accordingly. I very much doubt that it will permanently go one way.