They have a phone with 24GB ram.

Didn’t check this, it’s actual ram or a clever use of swap file as branding joke?

Well, you have to go with loss leader for a long time… then progressively bullying your own customers to arise the price until reach parity.

…from then you finally earn by continuing bullying the remaining customers as some sort of whales (people keep paying for shitty service due to constant spending habit).

I don’t see why this would work with the simple concept: pay & get value that come with indie.

You need a big plan to screw your customers and, like Google Stadia, carelessly drop millions in the trashbin just to buy that only lucky ticked that made Netflix win (but you did lose)

Any crime done by a spy in one nation is “a solve” from the side of the other nation.

…instead like, you know, being unemployed just because people are angry; I guess.

It’s not true their killing help no one: definitely helps other co-criminals (at large) who wants their mouth shut.

Piracy increase the sales. AAA companies are dumb enough to not even understand what actually draw sales with demo and shareware.

Forgive & forget: don’t play, don’t talk, don’t share products of the IPs from companies you want out of the game: forgotten.

Chinese pirated copies in internet cafe for shady activities: usually Valve fixed this data in the coming days/hours. But I think it’s nice to have a snapshot: a sudden motion of 30% would technically mean a sudden switch of millions of customers (or a bunch bot machines well placed)

PC today sold at 1500€ will be sold at 500€ in 2028, so… yeah, I don’t know what people is thinking.

One could say “you’re missing the whole picture, Alessando: in 2028 people would want to buy shiny new 2028 PCs capable of 2028-tripleA-gaming”

But this is also not the whole picture: if a brand new in 2028 that cost 501€ (500+1) doesn’t, at very least, match a 1500€ from the 2025 PC… it simply mean that only rich idiot will buy brand new PC in 2028 (aka: OEM won’t simply sell new stuff)

Snapdragon platform is already tailing PC gaming… if OEM won’t sell new X86 PC, Snapdragon (and like) are coming to get that hole in the PC market.

(but my true hopes are in RiscV: ARM holding can easily dragged in the hardware AI hell as well as AMD and Intel were)

But y tho

Nvidia, Intel and AMD: their business now is circular money with AI and not PC gaming industry anymore.

I think it’s more about the general bombing all around; Russian bombing, Israel bombing, USA bombing. They don’t quite hit the EU itself… but they are bombing around (except the side where’s the Ocean and North Pole: they don’t bomb those).

Second hand market: “I am a joke to you?”

Depends on the government involved: Roblox tax money factory for US government, which considering a certain island, currently aren’t too keen get in too many details in wealthy predators.

(Each government around the worlds got their own, BTW)

Steam got around 132 milion scrive users monthly: target the “some” of the most wealthy is what “most” AAA publisher, that sells at AAA price are looking for. It’s not about “some” 3080: it’s about starting from there and add all people that paid premium price for their upgrade above that.

Bluetooth controller do exist by quite some time. …also bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

…ad also USB-C hub that recharge/give power, offer HDMI/DP port and usb slots.

I recall Ubuntu Phone back in 2011 was set to use these features to give a complete computing, Ubuntu Linux, experience on smartphone (and TV, as the smartphone connected to TV)

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Explain people expecting things to come from future, aka marketing PR.

Well, ARM looks like is hoping to leapfrog over x86 (Intel/AMD) in desktop computing. Once the “RISC” technology (Box86,FEX and alike) head in the PC gaming… we may begin to see options to companies who fed on the PC gaming industry (mostly AMD/Nvidia) and now are turning their back after various things coming along (crypto currency, AI…)

Clever idea would be to give to option to sell it without RAM and SSD (as option, you can still buy the whole package).

They need an open platform to soar, who cares if RAM and SSD comes from second hand market? Steam is a store, they could even lead the second hand market for the (key) accessory components!

Epic can take “some money” by selling third party indie and AAA games… or take “all the money” when people spend in Fortnite. It’s a conflict of interest: Epic don’t want a good store that do the job for other companies, Epic want advertisement for their single product. They give free games with the same logic you get free merchandise to gather people around place that cost money… they don’t give the customer free stuff to make them happy, they don’t give “free money” to publisher/developers because wants them happy (well, aside for the purpose to have happy business).

They want as much as people possible, regardless of their role as customer or publisher, to bring their business in their pocket.

It’s not 0, its “AAA piracy gaming” in China that’s basically 100% Windows.

Linux (kernel) is present in China in all other environment (Android, Supercomputers, servers, IoT… etc) but Windows desktop (office&home) platform.