It's like the old IBM PCs, where you load the OS on your RAM but from the cloud instead of an 8-inch floppy disk.

It’s like the old IBM PCs, where you load the OS on your RAM but from the cloud instead of an 8-inch floppy disk.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    So, a 1980s terminal device. Where you pay rent to use your computer and access your files, and you own literally nothing. Watch the masses flock like sheep to it.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    111·
    1 month ago

    “Wow, this is worthless!” And expensive.

    Can currently buy a $150 laptop that can actually do things offline. Fucking $349 for a piece of junk that can only do something when connected to the internet and with a paid subscription is utterly pointless besides fixing the artificial problem of new version updates, i.e. Windows 11 > Windows 12.

  • InternetLefty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Soon they’ll offer the hardware for free with a subscription and that will guarantee their dominance. Late capitalism in the imperial core will be really wacky with all the financialization, monopolization and the desperate urge to continue the generation of profit despite the conditions for that fading away (higher labor costs and less labor involved in production). Artificial scarcity is already the order of the day for most consumer goods, planned obsolescence too. The “everything-is-a-subscription-and-consumers-own-nothing” is all these ideas taken to the extreme. With guaranteed revenue, you don’t have to worry about trying to get the average consumer to buy more of your stuff with advertising, making their stuff break after a planned amount of time, or only offering them stuff in low quantities to keep the price high, etc - you have them for as long as they have a computer, or a TV, or a car, a house, clothes, food, etc.