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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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Why would i do this, motherfucker ?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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elon can't keep his mouth shut, but looks like they're all psychos...
I'll go back to cooper wound nails if I have to
Aren't people basically already doing this? There are lots of people who only have their phone and maybe a tablet, and for basically everything that might actually require computing power (i.e. photo editing) they end up using a web app or something.
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Isn't this what Google did with chrome os and chromebooks?
Boosteroid? Yes, it's great.
Amazon Luna? No, it's a joke.
As for renting a whole machine, unnecessary unless you need a server.
The very idea of simply owning a screen, keyboard, and mouse, and using Windows remotely via a subscription will likely send shivers down many of your spines — but you have to consider the trends here.
You need at minimum an ethernet or wifi adapter and a processor and a GPU to decode video and push pixels to the screen. You need effectively a local PC to rent a remote PC
Phones? Tablets? There's your local PC right there. I don't condone it, but I'm pretty sure that's what Bezos is threatening to make happen; instead of having a local PC you own, you'll access everything from your phone in a way that it can be revoked on a whim.
Why a phone connected to the cloud PC is shit
This would be an amazingly trash experience over wireless so you would need to dock both because wifi sucks in most people's house AND because it would just constantly die.
Then it would ruin the battery to run it this way and on most user devices this is difficult/expensive to replace.
Many people have old phones that would perform even more poorly than average.
Your phone needs to be in your pocket and used for a million and one things not on the desk running a client to the cloud where you are editing an office document .
Oh sorry can't listen to my music as I walk around the house because I have to fuckin undock it.
No honey you can't use the PC its actually my phone and I'm running out the door. Let's undock it and fuck about and make your phone the client oh wait it doesn't work with your model for some reason? The sound doesn't work right? oh sorry gotta run out the door.
The efficiency argument and latency are in direct fucking opposition because in order to have acceptable latency you need to have a bunch of server racks near people which absolutely ruins the economics.
Why your TV as a screen is shit
Not positioned in a useful way or with a reasonable DPI or non-shit text rendering , nowhere useful to put the keyboard that is non-awful, pure voice input to use a computer is complete trash
Conclusion
Local clients that don't suck are going to be basic bitch small form factor PCs with ethernet and wired speakers because those things always work and always work well. If you don't fuck them up by running complete garbage they already run windows or linux reasonably well without issue. If you need a lot of processing power for AI you can run THAT in the cloud... which is already a thing.
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