Just don’t change your phone every year. Bought a cheap Xiaomi 4 years ago and as long as it doesn’t explode I’ll use it forever
Exactly.
Phones don’t age the way they used to. For most people, new phones offer little.
If they’d learn to simply reset it when it goes wonky from installing a million things…
I’m hard on phones from a software perspective - I do a lot of testing because I’m the family IT. I’ve always used 2 year old phones. My current phone is a Pixel 5 running a Lineage fork, and it works great. I’ll replace it when hardware (other than screen battery) dies.
Those RAM prices will drop like a rock soon. When AI investments are shown to not yield returns on investment, the investments will plummet, and at that time RAM production will be higher than ever.
So if you can, hold out a few months on buying anything where RAM is a factor.
I said this about GPU prices once, with coin mining instead of ai
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.
And I know you aren’t investing here, but the point is that if you’re looking for things like bubbles to pop when you expect it, don’t. This could last for years yet if there’s enough will for idiots to keep buying.
This could last for years
Just like my phone
When I bought my phone I wanted to keep it for 5 years, I have 3 left.
The bubble has been going on this entire year and more. The difference is that now the people that created the bubble are beginning to recognize that there may be a slight problem with profitability.
The question is how soon.
The bubble can go on for a long time with circular financing schemes and it has full backing of the US gov.
It’s worth pointing out that lack of RIO has been a thing for a while now.
Even Sam Altman is recognizing that profitability is a bigger problem than he originally thought.
I think investments could already be slowing down, but of cause this is also a pissing contest among the richest people in the world.
And they may think the one that can stay the course will be the ultimate winner.
So I’m not sure this race is decided based on reason, because billionaires tend to be megalomaniacs.
So you may need to buy a new battery for your old phone if you want to avoid the high RAM prices. 😋
Unfortunately its my understanding from this article that the type of RAM being demanded by AI data centers isn’t the same as standard DDR5 consumer memory.
I assume that means it won’t be possible to directly reallocate those chips to the consumer market when the AI bubble bursts. The manufacturers will have to switch their assembly lines back to consumer chip production and then supply will slowly ramp up as those facilities come back online.
