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The entire purpose ...
The entire purpose of the "Cloud", is to take power away from ordinary people and return it to those who are most qualified to wield it (i.e. Corporations and the Government).
There is nothing that the Corporations and Government hate more, than "Democracy" and "Freedom of Choice".
I have to laugh though.
If the US Government had proposed this idea, millions of Americans would be rioting in the streets.
Since it was proposed by the Corporations, those same Americans are cheerleading the idea.
Software companies (especially game developers) must be "c****** in their pants", in anticipation of the day that they can restrict access to their products, to "approved" customers only.
The cost savings are illusory.
The first one-day outage will cost a business more, than they would've spent on an internal IT department's budget, for an entire year.
There may be sectors that could benefit from the "Cloud" (e.g. mobile workers) but for everyone else it is just a money siphoning scam.
To paraphrase Homer Simpson, "Oh I see. First get us addicted and then jack up the price."
I can even see the first "apology" letters, "We are very sorry, but we have to increase the cost of your "Cloud" subscription, due to unprecedented demand."
Everyone who is interested in "Personal Computing", should resist the "Cloud".