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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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So wait is the idea that computers would just be like a monitor that connects directly to Amazon
Yes, they'd become a thin client.
The concept isn't new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporate servers to run the software, but he wants that to become the norm.
A chromebook is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.
Yeah, in college around 2012, they dropped the education of software optimization, claiming that the "cloud will make it obsolete". Hell, they even demoed us a DAW concept, that in the future, was supposed to run in the cloud, but only if we enable very low-latency internet.
That idea is very old. There was such a company as Sun Microsystems.
Dude, we literally just killed X11. Fuck off.
we're going back to "Terminals", just like in the 70s and 80s