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.
Everything a subscription. You’ll own nothing and like it!
And, people, I can’t stress this enough, FUCK JEFF BEZOS!
How about fuck you Jeff.
I love how the author keeps bringing up how expensive it would be to implement a system of cloud computing rental because no one would pay the amount it would require to make such a thing profitable. But we’re talking about Jeff bezos here who took billions of dollars worth of loss for over 10 years before making Amazon the profit machine that it is now. Simply by making things cheaper for a long period of time until the customer base eas so used to the model that they could picture doing it any other way and their competition went out of business. I can totally foresee them doing this exact thing with cloud computing. Make it really cheap get people hooked where they have gotten rid of all of their in person computers and then, once access to home computing is either prohibitively expensive or impossible to do because parts are no longer available or otherwise impossible for people to switch away, jack up the price and make it profitable by squeezing every dime out of the average consumer.
This was also, by the way, Netflix’s strategy as well as Spotify and all the other cloud-based services that people are “addicted to”. Take billions and loss to get people used to your service and not consider any alternative. Then once you have a captive audience shoot that price to the Moon.
Perfect! And after that we can rent our phones from the cloud too. Maybe our electric cars after that?
Genuenly I refuse to use cloud PCs, I don’t give a fuck how “cheap” they are or how “convenient” they are I ain’t using it. If there is still hardware being produced that works with Linux I’m buying it, if no hardware exists I’m gonna keep using my old hardware until new hardware that does support Linux comes out.
The only thing that’s gonna be replaced is capitalism and by extension the capitalist class.
This is stupid. I will never rent a computer mainframe.
Amazon sucks
Shit like this is why I’m glad I’m almost dead.
Why in the fuck did we move away from mainframes and dumb terminals in the first place, Bozes? Now back to that, but… cloud based, and we pay you to fuckin own everything? Get bent!
Boosteroid? Yes, it’s great.
Amazon Luna? No, it’s a joke.
As for renting a whole machine, unnecessary unless you need a server.
That’s like an EU member purchasing the F-35 under Krasnov. Yep, fuck that shit.
Oh, it seems that in the future books will become popular.
“You will own nothing and LIKE IT!”
Yeah go screw yourself Tech weirdo’s. You could help us, instead you just bleed us dry for profits.
I would rather never touch a computer again than rent one.
Yup, Jordan was right, they want you to rent everything.
