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The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 33 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm pretty convinced this is the play. Drive up DIY PC parts then promote thin cloud clients as a way to have a PC without paying the crazy prices that they set. It's a lot easier to tell you "it's safer for the children" and pillage every file, action, and keystroke for AI training and data brokerage. Your owned PC is a black box for them and it's their wet dream to own it for you... As a subscription of course.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    While it might actually end up going that way, I don't think that's a deliberate play. The tech bros and C-suite execs tend to be sociopathic dumbasses. I think they're legitimately just loading themselves up with tons of debt just to buy hardware to capture market share thinking that things could never collapsed on them.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    thin client machines that you have to lease with a cloud subscription and which are locked down to the intended purpose only. basically the death of generic computing. delevoper machines will be tied down devel kits.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't that what windows is anyway?

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