I don’t think I’ve upgraded a desktop machine for about 10 years. I usually buy a 1-3 year old corporate desktop and use it for 2-4 years, buy another one and throw the old one on eBay.
There's a lot of noise I can see behind the scenes on investor confidence. Noise as in "everything is fucked" sort of level of noise. Thus I expect this is being said to try and stop the AAPL stock collapsing in the upcoming recession that the analysts are predicting more than a tangible expansion and recruitment goal.
I also take issue with their being 20,000 people on the market who are still able to contribute something useful. They will be culled quickly and quietly down the line in the annual corporate lay offs.
It is not the time to make grand gestures unless you're trying to gain political favour, at which point any respect I have at least is gone.
I get locked out occasionally when travelling outside EU as well. I've got to the point I will just avoid using services with CloudFlare in front of them.
Also the one time I reported abuse which was online banking phishing they just replied that they'd informed the upstream provider and nothing happened.
I am part of a small specialist online technical community. We just moved it over to a Hetzner box in Germany and someone there is paying for it instead of it being hosted in the UK.
I think the impact is going to be far greater than that.
I have seen, at least here in the UK, some people speaking about moving entirely back to hardware that is controlled by the organisation. The case is there on a cost basis already but people are reluctant to admit this. If another magical guarantee expires such as a security one, then the reason can be shifted to that and the cost justification is collateral.
Getting out of PaaS systems is going to be horrible and expensive though. We never should have gone further than IaaS.
I suspect the idea of the cloud as it stands today may die fairly quickly.
They also forget the economic model that you have to pay $5000 for a real lawyer after the fact to undo the mess you got yourself in by trusting the output of the AI in the first place which made a nuanced mistake that the defending "meat" lawyer picked up in 30 seconds flat.
The proponents of AI systems seem to mostly misunderstand what you're paying for really. It's not writing letters.
Every time I talk to an MBA grad I hear stuff like this spoken about enthusiastically. I suspect that they moved the business ethics bit to the elective part of the course.
I own, err, three. Use one, hedge the others on going up in value one day :)