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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
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This is already a thing called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and it's pretty great from an admin perspective. It has the potential to be great for consumers, but it never will be because big tech never does what's good for consumers.
But VDI home computers, on paper, are a good thing. Less e-waste, your computer is never obsolete, you don't have to worry about maintaining hardware, etc. Obviously not great for a power user, but for the general population it would be a good thing (if it's provided by a consumer-centric company).
Yeah, in theory in a decent world with benevolent actors this probably wouldn't be so bad. But we do not live in a decent world, and benevolent actors are far and few between.