• monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    It’s never taken off because of relatively inexpensive and abundant hardware. But these will be attractive to people who need something now and want something inexpensive.

    Grandparents are the immediate target but eventually if they force the hardware supply shortages soon some people will need something.

    Imagine students with low budget.

    The next 5 years are going to be really interesting.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      It must be noted that Big Tech is currently engaged in artificially forcing hardware prices upward, and that’s going on while Microsoft continues their generations-long quest to deprecate old hardware by forcing new versions of their OS out of compatibility with it.

      There are so many ways they’re actively screwing their customers by making things tangibly worse, and then conveniently showing up to “help” by selling us more of their shit.