The price of creating and shipping the ram has not gone up, tho. People just saw the rarity and decided to jack the everloving shit out of the price of stock they already held.
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They say those who actually made fortunes during the gold rush were the ones selling the pickaxes.
Maybe I should get into the guillotine business...
I still believe that half this swell is artificial, supported by an entire greedy industry that is blatantly price-gouging. Yes there's a real boom, but just like egg producers who artificially inflated their prices during the egg crisis well beyond the new stress point, the same thing is happening here. We're all being fucked and swindled at every possible opportunity.
It's a simple supply-demand issue that took 30 years to arrive and will take at least 5 years to solve unless the AI bubble pops a lot sooner to stop the hoarding by big tech cloud companies, Chinese state-backed investment and others who are betting it all on black like a has-been Hollywood actor at a Caesars roulette table on a Saturday night. The US never penalized US tech companies for shuttering the dozen memory plants since the 1990s so they just relied on the Koreans and a few others. Now Korea can't keep up and the US tech companies have been caught with their pants down. While these kinds of people are very bright within their areas of expertise, leading to huge earnings, they're not bright on most business topics and eventually the market shifts and they're struggling.
This is where the tech companies founded in the 1970s-2000s are right now. Their original ideas are long in the tooth at best and about to be disrupted, if not already disrupted. The cash cows are looking a little fatigued. They're looking for a lifeboat to keep the good times going, thinking its AI, just now realizing their industry screwed itself with all of the offshoring but its too late now. They have to once again "fake it until they make it".
They just hope the people providing the capital don't start asking about when the market will accept the higher price points so they can break even. That's a question nobody acknowledges today when it's asked because they know it could sink the boat if it becomes a hot topic of the month on CNBC and Bloomberg.
It should be noted that they haven't become harder or more expensive to make. They just cost more.
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Every stars are aligned. We are At the top level of capitalism greed. For decades tech companies have piled up as much cash as possible sucking every dime selling their product. Now they want to rent their service instead. The best to do that is to host the service on a super computer, the user having only a low power terminal. They deliberately crippled the os to use the maximum ram and said we need to update our computer for ai and other things most don’t want, don’t need and don’t have the money to pay for it. The best move is to exchange their huge pile of cash to drain the whole market to build data centres. They now want everyone to become dependant on ai and pay them a significant part of our salary to satisfy their shareholders.
This. These companies (Microsoft, Google, etc) are using OUR computer's Ram, Hard drive space and CPU time to run their very own Skynets and making us pay for the privilege.
Then it’s time to let them go bankrupt and trust bust them to oblivion
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We have and use way more RAM than in 2007
For reference, that was the year Vista came out with a minimum memory of 512MB, with 1GB suggested.
Chrome running with a single tab on the google homepage eats more RAM than most AAA games of 2007
Just wait till the bubble bursts.
Surely this will make them finally realize it is unsustainable to demand consumer to upgrade their hardware every few years?... Right? Right??
Yes your old PC can act as a thin client to remote into all this server capacity that we are building out. Just sign up for this subscription for the low price of ~~4.99~~ ~~7.99~~ 15.99 a month
Hah, you think it's 15.99 a month....
Some of you are real power users, we are now changing billing from a fixed monthly cost to usage based. The price will be $1 per BILLION CPU instructions, quite the deal! And if you get our "Social Media+" package all compute for Facebook, Xitter, and TikTok is half off!
Wow! A whole 1 billion instructions! That's a large number! That should last awhile
I’m not going to pay 15.99 a month
With ~~5s~~ ~~10s~~ ~~15s~~ 30s unskippable adds every once in a while
Correct, so now they will move to computers as a cloud service.
They will eventually be forced to
RAM prices haven't been normalised they are still rising.
Normalized here means inflation adjusted. They're saying RAM hasn't been this expensive in a very long time
The meme of what to do with an old computer had always been upgrading the ram and storage as they were relatively inexpensive upgrades.
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