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.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Yes, they’d become a thin client.

    The concept isn’t new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporate servers to run the software, but he wants that to become the norm.

    A chromebook is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.

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      3 hours 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.