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@thomasfuchs It's a weird ebb and flow. It seems every ~10 years or so we go back and forth.

1 Mainframes
2 PCs
3 Terminal servers
4 Back to PCs
5 VDI (as in individual desktop VMs on central hardware)
6 BYOD. Everyone buys their own laptop (PCs again)
7 Pay-as-you-go AI from OpenAI/Antropic

There's some more home pc stuff stages as well, like the "gaming in the cloud" thing.

Corporations just really want us to rent computers. But they always, eventually, become too cheap to rent out.