Yeah the problem that keeps, and keeps and keeps coming back is that cloud based software gives too much control to the software authors. Because that's where

Yeah the problem that keeps, and keeps and keeps coming back is that cloud based software gives too much control to the software authors. Because that's where the ground of your argument sits: because of server-side "rendering" the data must be sent to the servers of the software author, in this case Huawei but doubtless many others, instead of to the device that actually displays the information. ... and that's exactly why everybody's doing cloud based software. Because it allows them to abuse this. And once they've got the customer by the ... they ask money for that. Cloud based software is how the author of a todo-list app can hold users' data hostage more effectively, more detrimetentally to the customer than Microsoft's monopoly that was blown up in the cause of justice.