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I know this is long so summary: The market is down 90%. All these companies don't think it's coming back. They think there's a strategy in play here to deliberately kill the personal computing market to end ownership and force rentership.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

We're almost certainly in the twilight of personal computing at this point.

Personal computing only became a thing during the mid 70s with microcomputers like the Altair 8800. It wasn't the norm til then nor an inevitability. We can very well live in a future where your personal computing device is your phone with peripherals (keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers) connected through a docking station. Your phone is completely locked down and spies on you, and your router is remotely administered by your ISP. Everything is done on the cloud^TM^.

this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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