"The answer is simple, everything is moving to the cloud"
Umm, no.
A lot of stuff is available on the cloud, but an amazing amount of stuff is still local to the computer. I do not believe the ratio will eventually be 100% cloud, nor do I believe it should eventually be 100%.
In fact, with HTML 5, a lot of stuff is moving back to being stored on the local computer. Why? Because the local computer is more reliable and faster than the cloud.
It's really quite simple: The closer something is to the CPU, the less latency you will have and the more responsive it will be. No amount of bandwidth will ever fix that, because bandwidth isn't the problem.
In addition, no amount of server reliability will ever fix infrastructure unreliability.
As long as thunderstorms and other natural events are able to knock out infrastructure, it's simply a fact that there will be a demand for devices that run on batteries and do not require access to the internet to function.
99.99% uptime at the server doesn't matter if the connection to your device has 95% uptime.
So no - I do not believe that we're going to see 100% movement to the cloud. It's an absurdity.
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