Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 21 hours agoGoodbye local Windows with Linux having a 3% market share means entirely different market & society too, regardless of our Linux desktops that can’t get new parts.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I’ll just point out that 3% market share is still bigger than the entire market when started building PCs. And that’s assuming they can make this attractive to anyone. Single point of failure for your entire company? Single supplier who has you over a barrel when they want to raise prices? Who in their right mind would go for that.
We’ll see. The fact that it’s on offer doesn’t mean people will bite. I’ve seen the industry try so much stupid shit that people said no to. Free computer full of ads? No. Scan cat? No. Packing LEDs into things that don’t need to light up or be hotter? Well… they got us there.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
people are paying for that nowadays. they call them smartphones. even the operating system and base apps show ads.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 16 hours ago
Yes, good points, but what can make financial sense doesn’t need to make economical sense.
Perhaps in such events we can transition to smaller, maybe RISK-V boards with components from various manufacturers.