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In the consumer space, which is what we're all talking about, right? Unless by 'robots' you mean giant arms that put cars together, but that's 1970s technology
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
In the consumer space, which is what we're all talking about, right? Unless by 'robots' you mean giant arms that put cars together, but that's 1970s technology there.
Gates/Jobs couldn't sell you a basement mainframe with a house full of terminals, and for good reason.
- YeGoblynQueenne 11y agoEh, you said "in computing". I didn't catch the "consumer" context there.
- coupdetaco 11y agoYou can't think of any context in which a consumer relies on a server somewhere?
- CamperBob2 11y agoGates/Jobs couldn't sell you a basement mainframe with a house full of terminals, and for good reason. One of the points Woz made in his recent AMA at Reddit was that the mainframes have won, pretty much decisively. As everything moves into the cloud, what we think of as computers -- from our watches to our phones to our laptops and desktops -- are really just terminals. What's a Web browser, after all, if not a highly evolved time-sharing terminal?