They want to sell hardware to businesses where the orders will be large and predictable. Renting the compute to the rest of us is just they avenue to that. They actually don’t care if we have access to compute whatsoever.
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berty@feddit.org 1 day agoWhy would hardware manufacturers want you to rent compute? They want to sell hardware, that’s what they do. Problem is AI tech bros are buying everything they can so that consumer fall short.
Butterbee@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
In the future we’ll all be renting terminals while all processing is done on their hardware
ugo@feddit.it 1 day ago
Because it’s far easier to sell millions of units to a single buyer, logistically, compared to thousands of units to thousands of buyers.
If everybody is forced to rent hardware time, hardware manufacturers will still need to sell their hardware. But rather than selling it to consumers they will just sell it all to a handful of providers.
berty@feddit.org 1 day ago
Ok true that. Guess we’re supposed to be happy to be able to buy at least. What a crazy time…