Apple is taking responsibility for “the user interface and people.” It’s designing the devices themselves, which will be typically elegant machines that run versions of OS X. While Apple puts together the front end of the integrated network-computing system, Google provides “the perfect back end” – the supercomputer that provides the bulk of the data-processing might and storage capacity for the devices.

At its heart, the anger with Twitter is not over its wanting to monetize its invention but rather the violation of the contract we all signed on for, namely to establish relationships with our friends and most importantly friends we don’t yet know about. It’s a bait and switch Twitter has pulled, establishing the cloud and then pulling the plug on our relationships, and I for one of many take it personally.