"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."

Dell’s CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I’ve had in maybe 5 years

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There was never a time, at least in my lifetime, where software wasn’t licenced and you actually owned it. The only real difference is that it was much harder to stop you from using it when, even if you went online, you weren’t online 24/7 and shit was slow, and your software came on physical media that wouldn’t change over time at the whims of the creator.