Raw LLM Responses

You gotta look at the past to predict the future. Between 2012-2022 the biggest tech change has been widespread smartphone adoption. Between 2002-2012 the biggest change was widespread cell phone adoption. My prediction is that there will be a ridiculous increase in subscription-based models for practically everything. We're already seeing that in the beginning stages of permeating our lives. Everything is app-based these days and we've already got subscriptions for things like... remote starting your car from an app, using security cameras, automatic cloud data backups, listening to music (spotify instead of just owning the music), MS Office, etc. This business model is very profitable for companies because they obviously can make more money that way than allowing people to pay once and own it forever. As more and more people live paycheck-to-paycheck, more people are looking only at whether they can afford the MONTHLY cost instead of looking at the lifetime cost. And businesses are taking advantage of that and will continue to do so because it's more profitable to them.