„Thin Is In“

At the same time, I think the reported PlayStation delay is telling: apparently the PS5 is “good enough” for Sony to wait for more memory capacity to come online, and they’re probably right! Thick clients — of which consoles like the PS5 are the ultimate example — have long since reached the point of diminishing returns when it comes to hardware improvements. I think you could make the same case for PCs and phones as well: what we already have is already more than sufficient for almost any task we want to do.

Moreover, the plateau in thick client capability is happening at the same time that the need for any capability at all is disappearing, thanks to these entirely new AI workflows that happen in the cloud. Yes, it sucks that AI is making memory scarce and personal computers of all kinds — from PCs to phones to consoles — more expensive; it’s also making them less important than ever.

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Man könnte fast fragen: „What’s a computer?“

Und die Antwort darauf liegt seit Jahren vergraben in Software: Welche Arbeitsabläufe ermöglicht welche „Suite of Apps“ für welche Situationen.

Die mir zur Verfügung stehende Prozessorpower ist schon lang „gut genug“ – von einem M1 im iPad über den M2 Pro im Mac mini bis zum A19 Pro im iPhone. Was dagegen immer besser werden kann: alles andere – von Konnektivität bis Kameras.