I guess, except that the market for printers is beginning to show signs of swinging away from this, and not just at the pro level -- witness Epson's EcoTank ran

I guess, except that the market for printers is beginning to show signs of swinging away from this, and not just at the pro level -- witness Epson's EcoTank range. Personally I think this long bet is questionable, not least because computing power that can be sold by the second effectively already is (serverless functions, or cloud hosting, which is already sold in fractions of hours), but also because many of our computation requirements will be able to be satisfied by the dirt cheap microcontrollers of 2027, let alone the phones. The specific software in his bet has a large enough setup and configuration burden that it seems unlikely to me there's much value in selling it in units of time shorter than a month. Office applications in particular have an inevitable outright purchase or long term subscription model. You need them for all the things you do; this cost is baked into very ordinary overheads. There are some narrow functions _in_ applications that you might want to pay for per use or per short burst of time. I can see the relevant app developers lowering the cost of their applications so they can sell CPU time for specific AI-driven or database-driven functions (advanced autotracers in Illustrator, advanced video processing calculations). But not the applications themselves.