Even Jio is doing the same. They are marketing their cloud computing through jio media player very aggressively. Although their prices are horrendous but still it shows the future landscape of the industry. If jio is betting on it then surely there is some undercurrent.
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obviously but like i said, it just wont go away. personal compute will be a niche hobby, how it always has been.
how many people outside of tech even cares about these things ?
i dont know man i just wanna be hopeful. i need major hopium
the entire thing fucking sucks.
If their stupid Windows 365 cloud edition takes off, then MS will stop releasing downloadable versions or ISO files and force everyone to get on cloud. So you do that or switch to Linux. I believe if that happens, people will just give up using PCs and do all things on their Phones/tablets.
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The first 2.5 minutes are pure cinema
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Yup, they really seem to want to push people away from personal computing to dumb terminals. Subscription model from everything. Don’t have to worry about piracy, it gets you an endless income stream and you have absolute control over what people can do and their data.
The conspiracy nut in me thinks that the GPU and RAM scarcity was partially done intentionally to dissuade people from buying personal computers.
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That Blackrock guy had said it, “You will not own anything, and you will like it”. It’s a paradigm shift in Capitalism. First it was goods and their sales and profit through materialism. Now they are moving from goods to services, selling “experience” and it’s a win-win for them. It is now have been conclusively proved that many of these experiences are habit-forming akin to drugs, and the millions they poured into behavioral change research was for this. Now they are going to portray themselves as the benevolent drug dealer, giving free hits till they start charging for the hits and will make you have an intravenous cannula permanently attached while they call themselves environmentally responsible by reducing the production of hypodermic needles and syringes they themselves were mass-producing. So you might see the “Green agenda” pickup soon, after this madness for rare earths get over, because once their production chains are sorted, they’ll start creating avenues to create demand.
I see moves to develop Neuralink, AI Pin, for that “cannula”. Do not remember who said it but some game studio said it that buying does not mean you own the game, that was just a premature primogeniture of this notion. The company that I see “coming to aid of consumers” is going to be the one who misses the bus or eventually joins the club last and given how things are going, I think that’s going to be Apple. They are late to the AI party, Siri still sucks. They are still driving their sales through sale of actual i<$h!7> devices, be it phones or laptops and even in that department they are still behind, be it actual hardware specs or form-factor such as foldable. Even if they switch sides at a later date, they won’t have trouble doing so because of the “Apple fanboy” phenomenon.
Another disruptor in this race will be China unless these American firms strike some kind of deal with them. Chinese have whole production ecosystem developed for mass production of chips and while West has tried to keep “High technology” out of Chinese hands, they have made significant strides on their own, through reverse-engineering and corporate espionage and manpower poaching. Last I heard, they had cracked the EUV lithography puzzle through ex-engineers of ASML.So China will either join them if it can else with it’s notion of being a global hegemon, it will try to disrupt them.
Rant over
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That is the World Economic Forum (WEF) guy.
They WANT to do it but CAN they?
Wouldn’t cloud be expensive will people pay ? Forcing won’t help atleast it didn’t in case of microslop (copilot)