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.

  • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Well chucklefuck you need a basic PC to act as the client. You know what kind of computer most people have? A shitty PC good enough to be the fuckin client. Why would they want to pay for a shitty pc to rent another one when they can just use the fucking shitty PC they bought at walmart for 300 for 8 fuckin years like they do now? That is $3 a month amortized beat that bitch.

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
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      15 hours ago

      They will sell it like streaming services or printers and ink. The first Amazon PC is free, then the subscription price and amount of ads go up. Eventually people will stick because all their files are there, and their Amazon PC does not support mass storage devices like USB sticks to download all of their work.

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        11 hours ago

        The first Amazon PC is free

        Whoa lets not go too far off the crazy cliff now.

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          4 hours ago

          I think they’re saying, in a literal sense but still, something like “the first hit is free”. These companies have made us all poor enough to be easily attracted to these “deals” and once we have no choice they screw us directly.

          Walmart had that as their whole thing, maybe still do. Go into a town and undercut the fuck out of their local businesses, using other Walmart locations as welfare providers, and then jacking up prices once the competition has been obliterated and no one has the capital to bring them back because half the town works at the big box store that doesn’t pay them fuck-all.