> It kinda amuses me that mobile spent a long time moving both storage, computation and network traffic from the client to the server as much as possible (becau

> It kinda amuses me that mobile spent a long time moving both storage, computation and network traffic from the client to the server as much as possible (because the mobile devices had too little of each), and E2EE significantly forces it back the other way. One would hope this would mean that you’d get more just-software rather than software-as-a-service, but no, mostly you just end up with the worst of both worlds. This kind of pendulum like, tick-tocking back and forth between things like fat clients/thin-clients, dumb termials/PCs, centralized vs. decentralized (well, cloud-based [i.e., someone else's computer]) applications, and so on, are part-and-parcel of computing that goes as far back as possible. This is just another "tock" in that cycle. Technology happens in leaps and bounds and not at all uniformly, so this is a natural result. I personally am for the best of both worlds in whatever makes the most sense, but definitely skew towards privacy, security, and user-authority.