That idea is very old. There was such a company as Sun Microsystems.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So wait is the idea that computers would just be like a monitor that connects directly to Amazon
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Dude, we literally just killed X11. Fuck off.
aurelar@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Yep. Back to dumb terminals. I’m not having any of it.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
we’re going back to “Terminals”, just like in the 70s and 80s
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yes, they’d become a thin client.
The concept isn’t new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporste servers, but he wants that to become the norm.
A chrome book is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.