Grandparents don’t want to rent shit. They want to buy it and be done. Source: this old fuck right here.
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monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 15 hours agoIt’s never taken off because of relatively inexpensive and abundant hardware. But these will be attractive to people who need something now and want something inexpensive.
Grandparents are the immediate target but eventually if they force the hardware supply shortages soon some people will need something.
Imagine students with low budget.
The next 5 years are going to be really interesting.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Fair. But what of they completely eliminate the ability to buy hardware like only selling to the AI fucks? Do grandparents not get phone plans for example?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
In general, we try to avoid recurring payments, whether debt, rent, or what have you. When we can’t, we can’t. But we’ll buy used, we’ll do whatever we can to avoid this shit — generally. So in my opinion which is undoubtedly a bit self-serving and should be taken with a grain of salt, grandparents aren’t going to just roll over and accept computer as a service. The market for own your own computer will always be there, and so someone will sell it.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It must me noted that Big Tech is currently engaged in artificially forcing hardware prices upward, along with Microsoft’s constant attempts to deprecate old hardware by forcing new versions of their OS out of compatibility with it.
There are so many ways they’re actively screwing their customers by making things tangibly worse, and then conveniently showing up to “help” by selling us more of their shit.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I would be surprised if this WASN’T a conspiracy among all the billionaires in their secret clubs.