Comment by fireflash38
7 hours ago
I think they'll keep cheap consumer electronics for the most part. Not as cheap as this last decade, but still cheap. They just want to control the entire software chain from boot to network-accessed resources.
Are you human? Then you must verify it from a "trusted computer", preferably with your driver's license. Gets governments and corporations as much information as they want, along with a guarantee that you can't "steal" their content and can't avoid their ads.
Oh I don’t disagree with that, I was responding to the very specific point made by OP about companies being “forced” to use the cloud.
I have no doubt that Google and Microsoft will increasingly do things to force us to provide more data so they can do awful things to us.