• Nvidia and Micron are making emotional appeals to consumers while PC users express frustration with big AI companies’ practices and self-serving motives.
  • Memory vendors predict DRAM and SSD shortages lasting until mid-2027, while new tariffs on advanced computing chips and potential Steam Machine pricing over $1,000 add to consumer concerns.
  • The article highlights how corporations use emotional messaging to mask financial interests, advising consumers to remain skeptical of such appeals.
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Apple can make Chrome book equivalents, they want you to rent compute power not computers.

Natively you'd be able to run VLC on a good day if you're lucky, but everything else will be online with a subscription attached.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Apple likes being able to distribute apps and have users pay subscriptions to run them locally. This is what they already do; even 3rd party apps get a cut to Apple.

    And its why iPhones are so powerful, other than their meager RAM capacity.

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