If this continues I feel it’ll ultimately bring about the AI downfall. Is the AI money cyclone powerful enough to withstand a $2000 or $3000 iphone?? Most people are fine with their current devices but shit breaks (i.e. one of my ram sticks up and died recently). Even if the overlords want us to own nothing we still need a device to access the AI and regardless of price if shit is completely unavailable then…
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AI hype is going full Ouroboros.
Current iphone is 1000-1500$. First iphone was $500 and was incredibly expensive compared to other phones at the time.
$2000 isn't even that big of a leap.
$2000 iPhone? You mean $30 a month on a 3 year klarna plan iPhone.
$60 at least.
Damn my math was off
RAM is a necessary component of any machine, I kind of agree. Doesn't mean they won't try though.
Denying the public their treats like this is a bold move. The sort of normie who gets their opinions from penguinz0 is very unhappy about this.
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The Coming War on General Computation (2011) by Cory Doctorow
https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4848-en-the_coming_war_on_general_computation
Transcript: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
Apparently all the hard drives scheduled to be made in 2026 have already been sold, as well: https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-and-Seagate-confirm-Hard-drives-for-2026-sold-out-11178917.html
Gonna start putting movies on optical discs.
You know, I used to kinda cringe at old school communist/marxists talking about "the means of production" ...
We are cursed to predict the future accurately all the time but always be cringed at for it.
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skill issue