fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
A few years of bloated pricing for phones, laptops, and gaming machines, and suddenly that Chromebook doesn't look so bad.
That thin client desktop from Microsoft seems like a steal when you need 500 new computers for your business. That yet-to-be announced cloud-first X-Box with low latency gaming tech starts to make sense.
Centralizing compute creates an economy that behaves like it runs on a finite resource, but create unlimited wealth for those with all the computational power.
/Ted Talk