• Riskable@programming.dev
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    23 hours ago

    My conspiracy theory: The plan is to fail and sell the data centers to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

    • lb_o@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      And also destroy consumer electronics market together with it, so everyone uses their rental clod solutions

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        22 hours ago

        Can you explain why? Microsoft seems to have bet the farm on AI, Apple certainly has a less sure future than they have had since the mid 00s but they still have a firm grip on the smart phone market, at least in the US

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          Microsoft is a weirdly desperate corporation in its attempts to generate money outside of the methods that have kept it afloat since the 1990s.