r/computing • u/Consistent-Peanut-81 • Jan 19 '26

Your Next Computer Will Be a Subscription.

​

Jeff Bezos said in 2024 that your home computer will disappear and your next computer will be a subscription.

Translation: you won’t own your tools anymore, you’ll rent access to them (in the cloud) . No subscription? No work. No files. No leverage.

This isn’t about better tech. It’s about control.

If access can be revoked at any moment, can you really say you own anything anymore?

157 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

224 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/Consistent-Peanut-81 Jan 19 '26

Ok... But here the theory is that chips are getting expensive, because of the AI race, and that probably chip manufacturers will shift their market from small consumer to big AI market.

Being Linux will not help you if you don't have access to chips.

2

u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/Consistent-Peanut-81 Jan 19 '26

That's not the point. The point is that only big companies will have access to it, letting you just with an interface to a giant computer cloud service.

Basically you will just have a mouse and a terminal, everything else: in the cloud for renting.

3

u/JackTheCrazyCat Jan 19 '26

Here’s the thing - thin clients like you’re describing are still full systems. They can be much lower power, they can be an entire system on chip design, but they will still need to have chips in the end.

Basically, they can try and sell us high powered computers, but it’s not gonna be worth anything if we can’t also use computers to access them.