[native_samples]

I think it's pretty impactful but people don't like to talk about it or even think about it explicitly. Rather, what people observe is that the really rich companies seem to mostly make their money by selling online services or like Apple, by selling hardware. As the latter is very difficult and often unjustifiable for what could be a pure software solution, people just come to associate cloud service=success and it the underlying factors become under-analyzed.

I think they also realize that whilst geeks will kick up a stink about "DRM" when it's done client side, the exact same thing implemented by a firewall and server rules draws no attention. So it's seen as more socially respectable, although in reality of course, software+DRM gives much better privacy than a cloud service ever can.

In reality of course, lots of very rich companies make offline or mostly offline software. Microsoft, Oracle, SAP etc. But they're unfashionable.