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		skohan on June 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept It's not only ads. Autodesk I believe does online rendering now, and for most CAD drawings even a cheap APU can handle that level of geometry, but it's harder to justify a recurring revenue model for a fully local application.

jacquesm on June 1, 2021 [–]

> it's harder to justify a recurring revenue model for a fully local application.

Then don't. Software was plenty profitable when we were just selling licenses.

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