> 3. It's also harder/impossible for their users to pirate their software, since they it never runs in their machines. I think your second point is actually th

> 3. It's also harder/impossible for their users to pirate their software, since they it never runs in their machines. I think your second point is actually the dominant one, but you're not wrong about this either. In some sense, we get the computing landscape that we (collectively) asked for.