Comment Re: Begun, the AI price wars have... (Score 1) 39
Medium to big corporations with large tech departments remember vividly how Broadcom screwed them on VMWare pricing and they're not going to get caught in the same bear trap with AI.
How do you reduce VMware to a "trap" when it worked fine for 20+ years? Two decades for a competitor to answer VMFS, Vmotion, and a control plan that doesn't suck.
I don't know a single soul that regrets using it in all that time, because we knew then what the competition looked like, and we sure as hell all know what it looks like now. Sorry man, but "there's nothing better" is not a trap. Things change and we're looking for alternatives and they still suck, as they always have, so it's suck vs pay more. I do not regret that ride while it lasted, not one bit.
I can say the same for the current state of affairs with AI, where your argument is even more flawed. There's little to no cost for switching. There's the best, and it's not expensive, then there's cheaper that sucks. There's no trap... cheaper more suck options is right there.. and we don't want it. If the best costs a lot more, and it may someday, I still will have ABSOLUTELY no regrets enjoying it while it lasted. What an utterly bizarre way of looking at these things.