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The whole push in the industry is to move everything to cloud, because that delivers better lock-in. The cloud is un-defeatable DRM (as the software is not even
by api 6y ago
The whole push in the industry is to move everything to cloud, because that delivers better lock-in. The cloud is un-defeatable DRM (as the software is not even local) plus control of your data.
- trident5000 6y agoInfuriating on so many levels: 1) creating the largest honeypot imaginable/single point of attack. 2) Potential trust issues as companies put proprietary data on servers that are not theirs 3) People storing deeply personal and sensitive data like photos on servers that are not theirs. 4) Forcing others data and work to be used for monetization without compensation. 5) Ultimately restricting innovation as people have less ability to build locally if they really take this direction to the max.
- moksly 6y agoYet you’re here on a social network where nothing you write is hosted or owned by you?
- trident5000 6y agoDo you actually believe deep down inside that this is a parallel comparison.
- spacemanmatt 6y agoIf this is a social network then I'm a militia!
- ako 6y agoLock-in is not the only reason: on-prem/on-pc deployments are more expensive as they have to consider more scenarios. How you install it, what other software is running, what software you want to combine it with (e.g., what database you want to run). On-prem/on-pc is also harder to debug and support, and harder to keep customers on the latest release, so you have to maintain more releases. Overall cloud makes sense from a business perspective because it's cheaper and takes less effort, so you can dedicate your developers to add valueable features to your software instead of dealing with customer specific situations.
- api 6y agoAll the problems you describe could be solved if the incentives pointed toward solving them, but they don't.
- ako 6y agoI'm currious, what incentives would solve them in what way?
- api 6y agoIf there were a solid business around recurring revenue for applications hosted locally, there would be more motivation for improving local operating systems. As it stands there's not much motivation to improve the local OS experience because there isn't demand either from the dev side or the user side.
- ako 6y agoWell, if there is no demand from the user side, then apparently it's not very important. For a vendor, creating, maintaining and supporting on-prem software is more expensive than cloud software, which means it will have a higher price. Don't see users willing to pay a higher price, if it's not considered important.