Agreed!
In many ways, all this hype about "cloud" is just another method of out-sourcing.
To me it resembles more of a return to the old ways, prior to the introduction of
"personal computers", when most companies were at the mercy of a few "big iron" vendors, and we rented computer time, or paid huge monthly access fees,
connected to the mainframe via 120 baud modems and dumb terminals.
When the PC was introduced, it was a break from being tied down to whatever
the service provider offered. We had our own storage media on our own systems. Why do so many appear eager to relinquish that freedom for the sake
of a fragment of "convenience"? How many more jobs in all fields are we going
to outsource before we're all in line at the unemployment office?
Oh, and in regards to changing to app development, how many of those jobs
have ALREADY been outsourced? Any other ideas for career moves?
