as our cloud devices will eventually trump smartphones. Was with you until this. Cloud? That's year 2000 talk. The "cloud" has already happened, and there's

as our cloud devices will eventually trump smartphones. Was with you until this. Cloud? That's year 2000 talk. The "cloud" has already happened, and there's a move towards reversing this trend. With austerity measures at many companies, they're bringing stuff home. Or refusing to migrate. Cloud is stupid expensive, with very questionable value. Meanwhile, the whole node+composer+npm+etc trend is now eyed with immense wariness by many, many businesses and especially high security businesses. One dev needing a 10 line function, pulling in 2000 packages of "who knows who wrote this" and "what is the actual license here" and "my god was this repo sold to hacker $x yesterday?" and "damn, this is backdoored? how do we even audit all this stuff?" is being replaced with "just write a 100 lines of code, and don't use 1M lines of node instead!" And with the reversal and soon end of Pii as a profitable method of doing business, all those free frees are going to go away! No Pii, means no profit, means you have nothing worth value to give! And so many people I talk to, are annoyed that shows they buy, or books, or games, just vanish. People want things they can touch! They're mad at their internet connected TVs showing them ads, and spying on them. They hate online ovens and fridges and washing machines. They hate that their car sells info to the insurance company. Most people I know have had it. The cloud will always exist to some extent. But its hayday is over.