Sentence examples for became dumb from inspiring English sources

With the core cloud storage business becoming commoditized and prices dropping, cloud providers are in danger of becoming "dumb clouds" à la telcos that over time became "dumb pipes".

"If they're just handing out checks and showing up late to the party, they become dumb money.

Then I moved to the speech impediment with Mushmouth, and from there into one decision made wrong, and you become dumb, so there's Dumb Donald.

The ostensibly meaningless "Bum bum be-dum" refrain in Rihanna's Disturbia, for example, is decoded as: "You good-for-nothing, idiotic person, let yourself become dumb, stop thinking and let yourself be hypnotised and possessed".

"The carriers are fighting not to become dumb pipes.

The last thing mobile networks want is to become "dumb pipes".

Without backup power, smart homes become dumb or at least less smart as connected devices shut down.

"The last thing the cable companies want is to become dumb pipes," says Reggie R. Bradford, chief executive of N2 Broadband, which sells video-on-demand gear.

The carriers themselves would resist such a scenario with tooth and nail because they'd become dumb pipe providers that couldn't lock users into contracts any longer.

But as I've written, publishers have become dumb content in Facebook's smart pipes, reduced to ghostwriters Facebook can easily swap out.

If news outlets and other media properties don't change something, they could become dumb content in the smart pipes of social networks.