Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid...
by ac29 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:02PM
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Just to add to this - life is pretty expensive these days, and a lot of people really don't have much discretionary income left each month after taxes, rent, health insurance, food, etc. Median household income in the US is ~$63k, and after all of those expenses its pretty easy to be left with something like $100 a month (or less, or even worse, needing to take on debt to cover bills). When that is the case, even a $5/month subscription is a lot of money.
Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid...
by ethbro on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:21PM
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Point not being that subscription is not a lot of money.
Point being that expecting someone with that level of disposable income to having savings that allow for capital expenditures (instead of amortized subscriptions) isn't likely either.
Sounds like Silicon Valley thinking. If you're used to massive salaries (and massive housing costs), you probably won't care about relatively small subscription costs.
But for the majority of people elsewhere in the world, those costs really do add up. There's very little appeal in renting a PC or games console in the cloud, then getting a sub-standard PC or console experience for an ongoing fee.