I don't think thin vs thick is really the right metaphor here. The core of the platform services are moving to hosted infrastructure that is true, but this is o

I don't think thin vs thick is really the right metaphor here. The core of the platform services are moving to hosted infrastructure that is true, but this is orthogonal to whether the client using those services is thick or thin. The main reason we see thin clients using them is just that in the short amount of time for adoption you can't really do much more than build thin wrappers around these things yet. But then, I have a more cynical take on the whole exercise. There isn't much more here than big tech trying to cannibalise / sabotage open protocols with proprietary ones, so that they can rent seek off the people who get trapped using them.