My take is that we need a straightforward application of anti-trust principles to stop this bundling of hardware products with cloud hosting with user-facing co

My take is that we need a straightforward application of anti-trust principles to stop this bundling of hardware products with cloud hosting with user-facing control software. All three of those things should be required to be three separate products, only communicating over generic protocols. Then if companies offer the cloud hosting for free or even too low cost and then decide it's untenable (or go out of business, or stop maintaining their app, etc), users can switch elsewhere and all the previously manufactured, bought, and installed devices don't turn into trash overnight.