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Personal computing is being chipped away and the goal seems clear to force everyone into cloud computing or something similar to it in the very near future.
Both businesses and governments benefit from this move.
Businesses want control over your data and what you can and cannot do. Allowing you to use open source projects causes too much disruption to their business models to continue to allow that. SaaS is a much better model for them to continue to grow and maintain their presence over your choices and wallet and wall you into their garden and this would allow them to do that indefinitely in some cases. Even for gaming companies like Nintendo, it would be best for everyone to only ever use approved hardware. Allowing emulators is a hit to their goals and if a business like Microsoft owns the virtual computer you use, then they can refuse to allow emulators to run on their computers used for cloud computing at Nintendo's request, whether willingly or by force.
The exception I see to that is a business like Apple that relies heavily on selling you new hardware as often as they can. Just one more device and also ensuring you stay up to date with the latest hardware. I’m not exactly sure how a business like theirs benefits from the reduction of personal computing, but they’re not doing much to fight these advances. Perhaps they see themselves selling us the hardware clients that serve no other purpose than to connect to the virtual computers.
Governments like it because businesses cave to their demands. Damn be the Constitution and other laws that purposely limit their overreach into your life. They just get the company to do it for them and override your freedom to choose. See covid and ICE. Both political spectrums are doing it for different reasons but likely with the same common goal at the end of the line.
Shortages like the RAM and GPU shortage greatly favor this push and causes consumers to view cloud computing in a more favorable light. At least, that’s what they hope for, but it’s difficult to do that when cloud computing and AI are the reason you’re lacking new hardware and it’s not for another more justifiable reason.
It seems inevitable at this point as they keep trying to force it.