[AlexandrB]

> I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that this implies monetization is going to be awful.

Because cloud monetization was awful. It's either endless subscription pricing or ads (or both). Cloud is a terrible counter-example because it started many awful trends that strip consumer rights. For example "forever" plans that get yoinked when the vendor decides they don't like their old business model and want to charge more.

[simianwords]

Vast majority of cloud users use AWS, GCP and Azure which have metered billing. I'm not sure what you are talking about.

[throwaway98797]

lots of start ups were built on aws

i’d rather have a subscription than no service at all

oh, and one can always just not buy something if it’s not valuable enough

[Daz1]

>Because cloud monetization was awful

Citation needed