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A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

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[–] phx@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At the same time I'm seeing a bunch of ads for "hardware is getting too expensive, use Akamai cloud for your gaming etc instead, now with AI blah blah!"

Bitch, you're the reason hardware is so expensive!

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Create the problem, then offer an over-priced 'solution'