>As long as they don’t require The Cloud Given that you hear frequently (even on the front page of HN today) - people getting locked out of their cloud accoun

>As long as they don’t require The Cloud Given that you hear frequently (even on the front page of HN today) - people getting locked out of their cloud accounts and then facing a Kafkaesque faceless bureaucracy - physical products turning into bricks because the cloud account disappeared with the company's failure I would certainly hope that a cloud account is optional.