apiso

apiso t1_iu2jpf9 wrote

This is a solid late 90s early 00s take.

We will, in the not-too-distant future laugh that we ever owned anything besides a screen and the hardware it takes to interact via stream. Real local processing of any kind will eventually be seen as a past blip in the history of personal entertainment experience like B&W TV, Walkmans, RCA cables, TiVo, iPods, etc.

Stadia was too early and made a lot of mistakes, but they were not barking up the wrong tree.

Edit/Add: I’m not advocating for that future. It’s just the overwhelmingly obvious one because of how it lines up competition outcomes and business objectives to “win” in a marketplace (and where businesses never do more than “lease” you a product - they own your stuff and charge you to use it in perpetuity)

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