[HN Gopher] Longbet: By 2027, software will be metered/sold by t...
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Longbet: By 2027, software will be metered/sold by the second
Author : collegeburner
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-02-27 22:25 UTC (35 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (longbets.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (longbets.org)
| spacemanmatt wrote:
| How long has AWS been selling compute by the second?
| SmooL wrote:
| So, if I keep my word document open on my computer and start
| doing other things, I still get billed? Not sure end users will
| like this or think it's easier.
| alexb_ wrote:
| The way I see the future of computing: You have what basically
| amounts to a keyboard, a screen, and a wifi chip, so that it
| can be sold at astonishingly low prices. No excess memory, no
| excess processing power, because all memory and storage will be
| rented out or extracted for data collection. Privacy will
| become a thing of the past since everything you do passes
| through a corporation that's doing the real computing. You will
| own absolutely none of your data or your programs, you are
| beholden to the whims of a corporation that can raise prices
| whenever they feel like, and it will become the norm because
| "wow cool $90 computer that can run any program".
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| People will absolutely buy inferior products if it's cheap
| enough and marketed well enough.
| shawnz wrote:
| Based on historical trends it seems more likely to me that
| $90 computers of the future will simply be able to run the
| most advanced consumer software locally and thin clients will
| just be unnecessary complexity.
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