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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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TBH I don't think he's wrong, especially in HIS position.
Namely I think having the flexibility of the cloud is amazing... but NOT at the cost of losing sovereignty.
So when Bezos uses AWS he is actually smart because he remains sovereign. When anybody else though does rely on another system that they do not own for critical tasks then then lose sovereignty and thus agency.
TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.
Even that is getting harder, thanks to google and micro$hit doing everything they can to lock down their respective OSs. Linux on a desktop, yadda yadda, but we're ~12 years into the smartphone era and we still don't fully own those electronic pieces of shit. Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.
FWIW I do have 2 Linux phones and... they work. The problem IMHO is that non-software companies believe THEY can lock or profit their customers via an "app". If they only provided a Web page instead rather than a mandatory mobile application then it wouldn't matter so much.
So, despite have working Linux phones (albeit far from perfect) I'm still relying on a deGoogled Android phone so that I can run mobile "apps" for only a couple of, quite important to me, services.
To summarize, I don't think it's the OS themselves that fuel lock-in but rather apps that require those locked down OSes.
The main driver for lock in is hardware. Like I said in my comment