• brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 months

    It will never bounce back.

    The “plan” is to effectively kill the market for personal PCs. PCs won’t be gone, but with the bulk of the population buying phones, tablets, or thin clients, it becomes far more niche and kills its critical mass for platform development.

    It sounds tinfoil hat-ish yeah, but… well, explain 2026 to your 2011 self.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 months

        Maybe.

        It could go either way. In the local ML community, there’s speculation that OpenAI/Anthropic and others will lobby for home PCs and servers to be restricted, because they’re “dangerous.”

        • zzzxxx0110@piefed.socialEnglish
          3 months

          Oh I would not be surprised at all if they try that. I mean, look at how much lobbying is already going on trying to push for a ban home 3D printers (which creates a competition against many different kinds of low-effort but otherwise high demand commercial products lol), using a justification that essentially boils down to “they can theoretically be used to help making dangerous objects” lol