Thin is good and the cloud provides an enormous resource to many users.

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While the market for regular computers has certainly been impacted by smartphones, tablets and other thin clients that are served by massive data centers through the cloud there is still a market for faster personal computers using flash memory (especially in combination with HDDs).

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Its profit margin is a page-thin 3-4%, partly because it has invested so heavily in the cloud.

ECONOMIST: Amazon