It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access to true computational capabilities.
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Kronusdark@lemmy.world 5 days ago
We are about to enter a consumer tech dark age.
I have no idea how companies expect to sell us AI if no one has a device that can access it.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Chromebooks are usually plenty powerful to run an independent OS. Just not a bloated one consumers are used to.
phar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They make it purposefully hard to do though. It should be as easy as plugging in a USB.
grte@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Add another contradiction onto the pile.
64bithero@lemmy.world 5 days ago
We’ve been in it for a few years now… and it’s not ending anytime soon
smeg@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
The PS6 might just be a streaming box, about as big as an Apple TV, that streams video from their servers that run the games for you, and run AI models outside of peak hours.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 days ago
We could go for more power-efficient hardware like what Apple did when they started designing their own chips.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They’ll gladly rent out usage of a computer to you for a subscription of expensive tokens like gems in a consumer unfriendly video game.