[DanBC]

> I wouldn't be surprised if many people around HN do not agree with Woz. After all the cloud is how many here earn their living. That said, Woz is absolutely right.

There's a weird split. People running a service do not want to have to depend on a 3rd party service; but they do want to encourage other people to depend on the service that they are providing.

[maayank]

If I put my thesis paper and vacation photos on a service that uses EC2 as a backend, I'm not a competitor to either the service or Amazon.

If I'm the provider of said service, Amazon are a potential competitor.

[simonbrown]

Which is why you make sure that you can easily switch to something else if you need to.