There are other, if often at least tangentially related, reasons but more than I can give justice to in a comment.
Many people largely got a lot of things wrong about cloud that I've been meaning to write about for a while. I'll get to it after the holidays. But probably none more than the idea that massive centralized computing (which was wrongly characterized as a utility like the electric grid) would have economics with which more local computing options could never compete.
Many people largely got a lot of things wrong about cloud that I've been meaning to write about for a while. I'll get to it after the holidays. But probably none more than the idea that massive centralized computing (which was wrongly characterized as a utility like the electric grid) would have economics with which more local computing options could never compete.