| > Very narrow? The masses could get a computer for almost all the time integrated circuits have been produced. The “personal computing for the mass” era hadn't even started when I was born, and I don't even consider myself old yet. > And the entire time, better manufacturing pushed prices down at least every few years. It's not because something happened before that it will necessarily happen again. > Even at current prices, computers are available for the masses. Computers are still available, but for the first time they are significantly less affordable than just a year ago. And nobody's saying the personal computer era is over yet, we're arguing that it's a possibility in the near future, and you won't convince me otherwise by saying “but it has always been like that” because it's not how it works, and because I'm just old enough to know it hasn't. The “personal computer” has already been mostly replaced by locked-in terminals in the general public, so it's not like this worry is coming out of nowhere. |
And the manufacturing improvement and price drop ramp has been going for 65 years. It's not guaranteed but better lithography machines keep being built and it's still happening with CPUs and GPUs.
RAM at this level of profit is unstable.