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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 9 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That's just a business probrem for them, they'll fix it with Amazon Fibre(tm) or something like that

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

They already have a Starlink-like program in the works. (Not that latency is important or anything with compute over internet.)

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yet another way to double-dip, I'm surprised they haven't released it already

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

They want us more desperate for it so that we will accept a higher price.

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Or they'll bundle it directly with the compute they want to sell you so that you dont even have the option of using your own PC and all devices on the network are 100% validated and controlled by them.

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