It's been an incremental war. For context, I've been posting about this for 20 years; during that time all the devices you say "we already have" were invented.

It's been an incremental war. For context, I've been posting about this for 20 years; during that time all the devices you say "we already have" were invented. This has eaten away at the average person's computing freedom, ironically while providing them a ton more computing power and capability. > They don't threaten the 'ordinary' PC market. Not directly, but think about this: * I know people who do not own a PC anymore, they just have tablet, phone, and TV. No need, apparently, but... * This results in a ton of kids growing up without early exposure to general purpose computing * This has been an increasing trend for quite some time now, and Pluton is just the next incarnation of Palladium, which tells us that Microsoft really does still see a completely captured market in their future. Linux plays a role, but in the embrace-and-extend sense; while WSL helps squeeze Linux out as a desktop OS down on the ground, Microsoft's ownership of Github cements it in the cloud. I know, I know, old man yells at cloud, I don't expect this train to stop, I just want people to stop and think once in a while about where it might be going. It's OK to dream up worst-case scenarios and then strategize for how you might fend off that eventuality even if it's unlikely.