[HN Gopher] Microsoft mulling cheap PCs supported by ads, subscr...
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       Microsoft mulling cheap PCs supported by ads, subscriptions
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2022-11-06 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | josephcsible wrote:
       | I don't like this, not because I hate ads, but because such
       | computers will be tivoized, because if you had freedom with them,
       | some people might remove the ads.
        
       | ivoryloom wrote:
       | > Included in the possible models are low-cost PCs available via
       | subscriptions, with advertising helping to offset some of the
       | costs. (Also mentioned in the job are direct-to-cloud devices.)
       | 
       | Does direct-to-cloud mean something like ChromeOS? That could be
       | interesting
        
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