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.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    We’re almost certainly in the twilight of personal computing at this point.

    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.