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Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?


From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:11:56 +0200



On 1/26/22 17:10, Tom Beecher wrote:


Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate because it's all black box.

Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control.

I don't disagree.

What this does, though, is democratize access into the industry. For a simple business model that is serving a small community with a handful of eyeballs, not trying to grow forever but put food on the table, it's somewhere to start.

Mark.


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