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They make whatever is most profitable as individual companies.

And China as a government, absolutely loves the idea of everyone's computer usage going thru giant corporations because the Chinese government owns part of every Chinese company and doesn't need a backdoor since they have a set of keys.

Like, why would they make something that they don't want and would sell for less profit margin overseas?

Why build for a bunch of broke consumers when there's a blank check for anything related to data centers right now?

That demand could disappear tomorrow. Personal computers will just get more expensive so prices will keep going up for when they have to switch back.

Why would you ever hope China would save us from this?

Edit:

It seems like people are confused here:

Reason 1 they want to make data center stuff, is just money:

They make whatever is most profitable as individual companies.

Separate reason #2 to prefer data center stuff as a product, is everything in China goes thru Chinese companies which China controls.

And China as a government, absolutely loves the idea of everyone’s computer usage going thru giant corporations because the Chinese government owns part of every Chinese company and doesn’t need a backdoor since they have a set of keys.

If Chinese consumers have to offload their data processing to large corporations, then since China owns a piece of every corporations, they now see everything people process.

Which is why the next sentence references two reason the Chinese government would want to squash home computing in favor of "cloud computing" thru data centers:

Like, why would they make something that they don't (reason 2) want and would sell for less profit margin overseas (reason 1)?