>>60487269Really? Not surprised in the least. Here's the basic rundown of everything in greentext:
>global economic hardship made money more expensive and credit sources dried up>all big American software/streaming sites are dinosaurs from a considerably wealthier period>this includes everything from Google to Facebook to Twitter to Netflix to Microsoft to Apple to Youtube>streaming sites in particular are unprofitable and their continued existence was made possible by eternal credit and assumption that the good times will never end, which meant perpetual subscribers and watchers. A delicate balance.>all that is now over, which is why even Microsoft is trying to make their software and Windows itself into a "subscription" and is trying to phase out perfectly good and capable hardware (PC's) by making windows 12 "incompatible" with it.>this is a hidden deal with hardware manufacturers, since their profits are also down and futures uncertain>tech layoffs all around, all tech companies are bloated>youtube wants in on the Netflix kind of deal, where they become a purely subscription based platformThis is just the roughest sketch but you get the general idea. The basic fact is in terms of hardware and software tech has peaked and there's zero reason to buy new PC's or phones or anything else, and the age of consumer electronics as a perpetual money maker is now done. And so is the whole streaming thing, the platforms are just bleeding money and may not even exist in the near future. What may happen is that we return to a hobbyish "old school" Internet with forums and decentralized sites and communities, but in the meantime all these tech giants will do absolutely anything to grift money off of us all and try to lock us in in closed ecosystems (the Apple grift). The point is not to yield. Don't pay, save your money, install Linux.
With time we may even end up with a purely vtuber based streaming site backed by actual corpos like Hololive, Nijisanji etc. In essence this is an extinction event for gigantic dinosaur websites, streaming sites and bloated tech corpos.
