zyzzle wrote on Yesterday, 23:36:
The bubble won't burst in the traditional sense... and when it does, as mentioned above, most of those excess AI slop drives and RAM are going into the landfill for the tax writeoff. Prices will remain high now that the lemmings have been weaned on them. And specs will decrease, as your subscription-based PC will be a minimum rubbish Soc system; building and sourcing your own components will be a difficult and painfully expensive con game. Ebay and its schleppers are lapping it up. Many bought low, stockpiled, and are poucing now for max. profit in this madness. They're part of the problem.
Shitty SoC based machines will be a noticable regression in capabilities and quality. They most certainly wont fill the niche needed by high performance applications, like engineering seats, and so they *cannot* completely subsume the market.
Since they *cannot* completely subsume the market, there will be an avenue for purchase, even at a premium price. The benefits of such ownership will still be there, even if at a premium price.
The mere existence of such options will puncture the ability to fully dictate the market, and as a consequence, manufacturers will produce products to meet the people wanting that freedom, or those options.
Enough people in that category, and economies of scale start to happen, and consumer revolt occurs.
I can see the market going to SoCs for a few years, everyone hating it, it being an ill fitting shackle on everything, the hardware makers in China and Tiawan wanting to hit every possible market, including this "rogue element", will produce products to fill that nice, and the dam will eventually break.
I can be that patient.
