Its hard to be excited about hardware that will only exist in the cloud before shredding.
This benefits everyone, even if you don't use Google Cloud, because of the competition it introduces.
I don’t want to own open source software and I’d prefer if culture was derived from and contributed to the public domain.
I’m still fully on board with capitalism, but there are many instances where I’d prefer to replace physical acquisition with renting, or replacing corporate-made culture with public culture.
Whenever assessing the work involved in building an integration, always assume you’ll be doing it twice. If that sounds like too much work then you shouldn’t have outsourced to begin with.