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Don’t worry - the cycle will reverse again at some point and we’ll go back to more powerful local machines.

Why do you expect it would be cyclical when the power capture would be extremely valuable to the main players?

And those main players will just be outcompeted. I'm sure DEC wasn't anticipating the PC revolution to take hold so quickly.

I'm not sure they were quite as entrenched or quite as big as Apple or Google are today.