Yep. Much easier to extract value from customers with it centralized to all mighty mainframes/cloud. Renting is more experience in the short term. They want to remove the buying option all together if they can.
Lots of things people think they bought, are really life time renting for a one time payment. But they can still cut your access, by accident or purpose, so you don’t own it.
Whats old is new again. Anyone else hear “cloud pc” and think “oh, mainframes” from the 80s? Mind i never used one, but thats where my mind went.
Mainframes peaked by the 70s. 80s bored the fruit of the standalone PC revolution.
That something I pointed out before. I even used old mainframes as an example of primitive cloud services.
Yep. Much easier to extract value from customers with it centralized to all mighty mainframes/cloud. Renting is more experience in the short term. They want to remove the buying option all together if they can.
Lots of things people think they bought, are really life time renting for a one time payment. But they can still cut your access, by accident or purpose, so you don’t own it.
My very first thought. At the same time, it brought to mind stories of Richard Stallman’s “blank password” protest shenanigans…