As an ios mobile dev, I get jealous of my fellow android dev's ability to roll out updates incrementally and to publish updates immediately. With a cloud model

As an ios mobile dev, I get jealous of my fellow android dev's ability to roll out updates incrementally and to publish updates immediately. With a cloud model, you don't have the possibility of bricking your customer's device as a failure mode. 1) You can actually gather more data on the device vs just a remote service 2) SaaS moats are attractive from a business model perspective 3) TBH pushing compute on your customers devices is cheaper for the cloud owner, but harder to manage. On a per user basis most servers are actually VERY efficient. Most peoples smartphones are relative supercomputers, only some things will be very battery draining. 4) 'the cloud' does enable a lot of stuff that people don't want to manage manually themselves