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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 39 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I'm hoping this insane future booked shortage causes the consumer electronics industry to crash due to lack of parts which in turn should cause the AI industry to crash when no one is buying new tech nor fat AI subscriptions.

It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly when even laptop procurement has tripled in price and you're spending a ton of money for enterprise AI access.

[–] Comet79@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a "game streaming" service, for example.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Ahh, late to market in a flooded field with at least one law of physics preventing it from ever working acceptably. Good job, Jeff!

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Good luck with that to them. Internet reliability is extremely crappy in the US, even on supposedly "tech hubs" in California the best you can do is unreliable Comcast or super slow DSL from AT&T.

[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

I don't think any of them are terribly concerned with the quality of the service.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 25 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I think they’re hoping the result is that we can only afford cheap tablet devices that act as dumb terminals for their cloud services which we have to rent forever due to holding our data hostage so they can manufacture consent and prevent us from developing open solutions to their walled garden proprietary products.

A precarious moment at the edge of a cliff.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly...

I'd imagine that is a major factor in why it's so accepted right now. Gotta consolidate the market!