AMERICAN manufacturers, just waint until the Chinese industries swoop in to fill the gap. I seriously feel America just wants to kneecap itself.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Wants to kneecap itself?
Dude, the US is going full seppuku and we're going to gut ourselves on the floor.
Part of this has been a long-standing move by every industry to prioritize business-to-business sales as opposed to consumer sales simply because businesses have money and consumers don't, because businesses are pocketing all the profits and refusing to pay their employees (consumers) a living wage, let alone a thriving wage.
It's been a long time coming for the PC industry, because it's been a general trend for at least two decades as sales to business have become more profitable over consumer sales ever since the late 90s.
It's just more evidence that the bottom 90% of earners are just being priced out of anything but bare subsistence and the wealthy do not give a single fuck about it, in fact, they're embracing it.
Probably because the hardware is going into systems that eliminate jobs and we become broke. All that gear is gonna sit on the shelf if we can’t afford it.
The silver lining is that hardware performance gains have been so minor from generation to generation that upgrading isn't really that important anymore. Like if i upgrade from next generation equivalent GPU it would give like 8% more fps... and it costs like 1,5k... No thanks.
You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren't really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.
Is Moore's Law being resurrected?
Transistor size downscaling is pretty much done. Also mosfets can't much improve in this race anymore. We would need a new computing paradigm to see manufacturing cost reductions or major performance leaps. For consumers thats still years away.
off to sell it cheaper to companies, so they can rent it back to us.
Even as consumer revenue remains sizable and maintains steady year-on-year growth, it finds itself competing against segments that grow exponentially faster and earn more per unit.
So it has nothing to do with people having less money. It honestly gives me hope, things could change with a bubble burst.
The point is to make the bubble butter, then they'll pretend that's why they have to edit consumer market.
The goal is the so called "thin client" - i.e. absolutely everything in cloud
Bingo! And they’re doing it to enterprises too. Why do you think copilot is shoved into everything? Why do you think Recall is creeping towards being mandatory? Why do you think OneDrive isn’t optional anymore?
They don’t just want your data for advertising. They want to watch the entire capital machine in real-time to make sure there aren’t any gaps, and dissent, and most of all, anyone getting the jump on something new and big. OneDrive to rule them all.
You can make a lot of money selling imaginary products to nonfunctional industries.