Not alone and I suspect there are more and more people becoming uneasy with 'the cloud' for myriad different reasons. Obvious reasons include privacy and secur

Not alone and I suspect there are more and more people becoming uneasy with 'the cloud' for myriad different reasons. Obvious reasons include privacy and security but there's also the ephemeral nature of such services (they can get bought/shutdown on a whim -- Apple is no stranger to cutting things that don't work for them). Also, it's not hypocritical at all to raise a concern even if you're a big user of such services. Right now, it's not like you have many alternatives. In my view, we need to move towards a system where everyone can control their own piece of the 'cloud', without the burden of being a sysadmin. There are varying approaches to this (cf Sandstorm and OwnCloud), but I believe we need to work on the fundamental infrastructure if we want properly decentralised systems. I'm working on this, based on the idea of unikernels - http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/ http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/