On web aware applications and the future of Surfulater

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 9, 2012 at 12:01 AM

I’m also wary of cloud-based services because of their revenue model. Here is my nightmare scenario:

Eventually you end up paying for the fact of being locked into a cloud service where you pay ever-increasing sums as the data accumulates and becomes too huge and cumbersome to move to another service. Eventually you end up paying for storage, rather than for innovative software development. And it’s a never-ending payment scheme, like a gym-membership, which many people forget to cancel after they stop going to the gym. The focus for these services will be not on existing users (who are already charged monthly) but on recruiting new users, to increase revenue. The focus will be on the needs of the “lowest common denominator” type user, rather than on the sophisticated user who has specialist needs.