Someone poisoned the AI to inject vulnerabilities instead of fix them.

It's not really a perpetual license.

Once you reach market saturation on ethically-licensed software, you can't grow, so you have to get everyone using a subscription to give the appearance of growth. At some point, though, everyone has "upgraded" to the subscription model, and you've once again slammed into the wall of no additional customers that need your product. It's all downhill from there. Rather convenient that this AI crap came around exactly at the time the companies that switched to subscriptions were at their saturation points and needed a new subscription to sell.

Also, Adobe has, in fact, been on the AI bandwagon, it's just nobody wants the crap.

Infinite spend, and really, in the new economy, profits and losses aren't the best metric, you see, what you really need to care about is the velocity of money because at some point the loss counter wraps around to a positive number.

In my experience, your VC people "strongly advise" you to get some marketing people and will yell at you if you're doing it wrong.

The human consumers are replaced with bots so you have the pure and perfect computer responsible for all aspects of social interaction on the social media sites. The company replaces its staff with bots, and then the company can be a pure profit-making venture free of the liabilities of customers, employees, or products.

When XML web services were our lord and savior of a syndicated, open web, but then they did the rugpull and we ended up with metered services for everything.

Every friggin' tech bro that sells their first company for a few billion dollars and then starts their own VC firm will ultimately invest in a Smart Toilet of some sort, and it will not be a success.

That's all you really need to know. The AI runs in the cloud, the cloud is metered, therefore the AI-enabled anything is a subscription. Doesn't matter what it does. Doesn't have to be useful, or mandatory, but some compliance droid somewhere will make buzzword-of-the-week a necessity and you'll befored to subscribe in order to comply with the mandatory policy.

You mean "unanimous consent" requires unanimity? Quelle surprise.

It's actually worse than that... your calculation is off by three orders of magnitude. 1.4B users, not 1.4M.

At a trillion dollars a year they'd need to increase the cost by a factor of more than 4 and increase the paid user count to 1/8th of the entire planetary population just to cover capital spending. If you charged corporate America $30k a year for each employee made redundant by AI you would need to replace ~20% of the entire productive US workforce to cover just those costs.

Oddly enough, buying ponies for those million little girls would cost less around 1% of the proposed annual spend here. You could also buy a backhoe for a million little boys for another couple of percent or so.

Soylent green is the future.

Just let them get their money right and they'll be back. Can you hold on to it for two weeks?