I know this is long so summary: The market is down 90%. All these companies don’t think it’s coming back. They think there’s a strategy in play here to deliberately kill the personal computing market to end ownership and force rentership.
I know this is long so summary: The market is down 90%. All these companies don’t think it’s coming back. They think there’s a strategy in play here to deliberately kill the personal computing market to end ownership and force rentership.
We’re almost certainly in the twilight of personal computing at this point. The AI bubble was simply the catalyst of its downfall. Once it pops, all of that datacenter buildout is likely to be used for something rather than scrapped, and that something is cloud computing. Gaming and compute heavy workloads will likely be offloaded to the cloud where we’re going to end up paying some form of subscription to use it for any reason or purpose. Home PCs will end up being nothing more than thin clients.
If the personal computer market somehow survives, it’s going to look very different 5-10 years from now.
Personal computing only became a thing during the mid 70s with microcomputers like the Altair 8800. It wasn’t the norm til then nor an inevitability. We can very well live in a future where your personal computing device is your phone with peripherals (keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers) connected through a docking station. Your phone is completely locked down and spies on you, and your router is remotely administered by your ISP. Everything is done on the cloudTM.