A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

    • TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      I think a lot of consumers will welcome this (at first).

      For instance, Geforce Now is a pretty appealing value proposition at current rates compared to the cost of buying and owning an equally performant gaming computer. You pay less up front and you pay less in total than the total lost to depreciation over the time of ownership.

      But of course, this is the first, honey trap phase of enshitification.