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> when moving to the cloud and SaaS was going to save so much money by letting companies do away with in house IT.

I was amazed that anyone believed this at the start, and I'm even more amazed that anyone still believes it.

I never believed it. I remember telling people how this would turn out and getting kind of laughed at.

This industry is so fad driven. When something is the fad in tech it becomes heresy to question it.

I had a similar experience when everyone believed mobile would completely replace desktop/laptop systems. I explained why it wouldn’t, why it was for a different set of use cases, and was kind of scoffed at for that too.

The new generation has largely switched to exclusively using thier phones. I figure this will have some pretty negative consequences for computing, but was also inevitable given the state of things

People in the new generation who use computers to do real work don't use phones because you can't do very much in the way of real work on a phone. Developers also don't use phones because you can't develop (much) on a phone. They are pretty much pure consumption devices.

What's happened is that the phone has replaced the PC for casual consumer-level computer use, except maybe high-end gaming.

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