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Desktop is coming back.
by barrenko 5y ago
Desktop is coming back.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoI wish it were true, but I don't think it is. Personal computing as a mainstream concept is dead. The modern developer no longer seeks to enable users to leverage the power of computing, they seek to corral users and farm their eyeballs for ad revenue. The future is appliances that will only ever be used when and how the developer wants them to be used, because the modern developer has no respect for users. Nothing will interoperate, nothing will respect user choices, nothing will be free of ads, everything will suffer latencies due to the network, nobody will be able to store their data locally under their own control. This is the future we've built for ourselves, and we don't even have the decency to be ashamed of it.