I expected this to be about smartphones and tablets, not the resurgence of dumb terminals. Microsoft Virtual Desktop Google's Stadia (both sited in the article

I expected this to be about smartphones and tablets, not the resurgence of dumb terminals. Microsoft Virtual Desktop Google's Stadia (both sited in the article) are both indicators of something big happening in the desktop computing market. I suppose it makes sense. Plenty of us use elastic resources to power our web applications; why pay for a massive server when your typical use case requires much less power, and you can easily scale up with a few mouse clicks? That concept translates to the desktop, as well. I just dropped a few thousand dollars on a new development machine, but I don't need that same power when I'm screwing around on Reddit. Of course the sticking point will be whether or not it's actually cheaper to use a scalable remote desktop than it would be to just buy better hardware. Since the obvious goal of this is to ring out more and steadier profits, I strongly doubt this will be the case.