"It's all in the cloud these days like every other bit of compute."

It's always good when you make clear just how ignorant you are.

PCs are driven by business demand, not private consumers. Businesses buy PCs, but on what refresh cycle matters. Not analogous to the car market at all.

Also, high car prices are caused by much more than "unrelenting greed". You'd do a lot better if you didn't choose a terrible analogy and then misrepresent it.

"The end of the PC market is just a bullshit prediction that has been around for 30 years or longer."

No it has not. NO ONE in 1995 predicted the demise of the PC, it was the foundation of the economic boom then. You don't know what you're talking about.

Not for Elon Musk! Apparently everyone else builds fabs wrong!

"Capitalism can't function like this."

This is exactly how capitalism functions. It's free markets that don't function like this. Free markets and capitalism are not the same thing. Free markets are what the government ensures so that capitalism DOESN'T function like this.

"The shortage is market demand driven, not artificial."

If you take the word of pathological liars.

"This is the free market doing what it does in the normal way."

If you take the word of pathological liars.

"Where they have a fiduciary duty to do exactly what they’re doing."

This is false narrative promoted by the same people who do this. Capitalism has no such "fiduciary duty".

Policy is being generous. Trump does not have policy, he is a con man, a rapist and a criminal.

These posts just demonstrate how stupid MAGA people are. Reposting these quotes doesn't make the OP look bad, quite the opposite.

A very good summary of the current state of affairs. If they can't profit from you, they want you to die.

"Has nothing to do with politics, this started well before Trump season 2."

Nonsense, it is nothing but flattery of Trump who makes clear that he is not a drinker. All they stopped short of is endorsing snorting of Adderall instead, something Trump does do. Nothing to do with health, it is pure politics.

We are long past the point where software with a specific name and even user-visible version had fixed behavior. A/B tests on users, "minor updates" that change functionality that isn't exposed by the top UI, context-dependent behavior from your OS version or release or user account type, and even different software packages with the same name are all standard.

Microsoft have caused this reputation problem for themselves by embracing complexity and trying to hide it all from the customers. Figuring out how to change a behavior on my computer no longer even likely applies to other computers, and frequently the behavior is reset by an automatic update anyway.

Anyone who bets against "Leslie will take X action" when Leslie can participate in the betting is, indeed, a real loser.

The problem I have with people who think compulsive/poor gamblers only hurt themselves and just "get what they deserve" is that compulsive/poor gamblers steal money from people around them to feed their problem/disease, and also have dependents who are in no position to shield themselves from the consequences of those actions.

As usual, if every person was an island, life would seem much more "fair" and simple, but people are not islands. As a society, we hold immense value in being able to do certain drugs, and so fine, we accept that collateral damage will occur. But what is the societal upside of allowing a company to exploit "real losers" in this case?

Mac users pay nothing to resolve issues like this. There is no "Apple tax" to be paid here.

You are a stooge.

"If you think your Mac is somehow Linux with a nice desktop and no tomfoolery, you're fooling yourself."

Who thinks that? And is Linux the "with tomfoolery" option?