The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.
The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.
I don’t think the personal market will completely die out, but it will definitely shrink by a significant percentage over the next ten years or so.
We’ll see a considerable volume of gamers move to thin clients, ditto for businesses, casual use (email, browsing, consuming media etc.) will continue to switch to mobile devices.
PCs will still exist as a hobby for enthusiasts, but we’ve definitely seen peak-component sales.
I’d wager that in 10 years, it will be illegal to own your own hardware.
The world is not America, there is no chance this would ever possibly happen.
Fearmongering garbage.
Or free money. Take the wager! Why don’t you fine folk both put your money where your sermingly-confidently-omniscient mouths are?
because I don’t eat my momey sir
It won’t be illegal, it will be unavailable. We just won’t have access to anything cause they won’t make it. Why make something they can only charge once for when they can rent the same equipment and earn multiples of what it would have sold for
The PC market has shrunk 80-90% in one year.
Even before that the GPU market was overvalued thanks to unusually high demand from COVID and unusually high demand from crypto mining the decade before.
Even consoles are reaching the $1000 mark soon.
This thread is calling out a legitimate problem, but things aren’t that bad.
Last year the market grew by 9%. This year it is projected to shrink by 11%. That’s huge, but not 80-90%.
The cost of GPU’s and memory increased 5-10x in 1 year. What did you expect?
Also the old stuff still works great if you aren’t running AI. Hell I have a FX-8350 and a 1060 which is just fine for most things…and I think that CPU is from 2015.
Not just GPUs. This time is RAM and storage are also massively inflated because they’re allocated for a product that nobody really wants and nobody wants to pay for.