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Part 2 of 3: The short-term implications: the reality check.
The myth of ever-cheaper technology is collapsing. And this time, it is not a passing crisis. Rising component prices, the disappearance of the mid-range, cloud providers passing their costs on to businesses… Techflation is no longer an economist’s hypothesis: it is landing in your IT budgets and in your pockets.
What this article unpacks, in concrete terms:
Why smartphones under €300 are simply going to disappear
How financial markets are still ignoring the depth of this crisis
What strategies companies and states are starting to adopt to regain control of their digital sovereignty
Between the Androidcalypse reshaping the mobile market, the extreme fragility of semiconductor supply chains and the rise of new alternatives (RISC-V, open-source AI), the digital world as we know it is in the middle of a sea change.
The question is no longer whether things will change. It is already happening.
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: Techflation, the silent collapse of the digital economy (Part 2/3)