I personally don't like the idea of running remote apps at all. I don't even like local apps that try to phone home without asking.
I buy software from a company to run on my hardware as I see fit, and to apply any updates (or not) as I see fit. The idea of the app's company being able to make arbitrary changes at any time bugs me almost as much as the idea of my data flowing back and forth over the 'net. For casual, group-oriented stuff, like online communities, remote applets (like forums, polls, wikis, etc.) make sense and I enjoy using them, but not "real" apps using just my own data.
Maybe it's my age; as the story mentions, this doesn't seem to sit well with us older folk. Now you kids get off my lawn! <g>
I buy software from a company to run on my hardware as I see fit, and to apply any updates (or not) as I see fit. The idea of the app's company being able to make arbitrary changes at any time bugs me almost as much as the idea of my data flowing back and forth over the 'net. For casual, group-oriented stuff, like online communities, remote applets (like forums, polls, wikis, etc.) make sense and I enjoy using them, but not "real" apps using just my own data.
Maybe it's my age; as the story mentions, this doesn't seem to sit well with us older folk. Now you kids get off my lawn! <g>