> Do you think that Automatic needed to have a cloud service? Their primary use case seems to have been uploading mileage data to a variety of expense reporting

> Do you think that Automatic needed to have a cloud service? Their primary use case seems to have been uploading mileage data to a variety of expense reporting systems. Honestly, that kinda seems like something that makes sense to do server-side, especially if they were forced to implement some of those integrations in very kludgy and fragile ways (like screen scraping/form filling). Even if the calls were made directly from the customer's device, there's probably a background hum of development work needed just to keep the integrations working.