I agree (mostly), but > If the cloud disappeared, I wouldn't be able to build apps anymore. Seems rather hyperbolic. Colos and shared hosting were a thing lon

I agree (mostly), but > If the cloud disappeared, I wouldn't be able to build apps anymore. Seems rather hyperbolic. Colos and shared hosting were a thing long before the cloud craze, and still continue to be a thing. I figure if nothing else a lot of people would go back to the still relatively low touch environment of uploading PHP or CGI scripts, which honestly seems like a pleasant change these days.