Recently took a tour of my old campus

Everyone has a Macbook and they're all writing Javascript. Something happened around 2006-2010 (facebook + iphone) that made every normie get into software. I predict a massive collapse of the current tech bubble once these kids graduate, if it already isn't underway. Like all great disasters, in its wake order will be restored. Recall how GREAT it was after the 1999 dotcom crash.

By 2020, the Ruby coffeeshop Macbook crowd will once again be rightfully laughed at. There will be a return to the old ways of the software industry—that is, business being the primary users of software and not individuals. Less ``cloud'' and more WinForms. Less ``ajax'' and more HTML. Less ``scripting'' and more programming.

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Yes, the problem with ``cloud'' is that you can't prevent it from phoning home because that's all the program (or your portion of that program) can do.

``Cloud'' is really expensive and in general a bad business decision. A cloud company has to not only host the customers' data but also host all the application's computing for every user. Imagine a CloudExcel spreadsheet program that had to do several network round trips and SQL queries on CloudExcel's servers every time a user saves a file or imports a different file format. Is it really worth all the data center costs just to prevent the possibility of piracy? Your users have devices with CPUs, so why not let them use their own computers to run your program. To me, the potential loss to piracy is nothing compared to how expensive hosting is (and will continue to be). The only scenario that justifies hosting ``cloud'' programs is when there is value from bulk data collection.

ALL ``cloud'' software exists to harvest and SELL your data. Either that or they would go bankrupt from running data centers.