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When a state government shuts down, the proximate root cause is a lack of funding. The next-level root cause is that the two sides weren’t able to find an acceptable compromise. The deep root cause is that THE OTHER SIDE IS EVIL, STUPID, AND ENTIRELY LACKING IN THE SLIGHTEST SENSE OF HOW THINGS WORK.

Please trust me on this; I live in Minnesota where we just shut down, and, this is pretty much how everyone looks at the situation … except for those who figure my description applies equally to both sides.

But this column isn’t about government shutdowns. It’s about Cloud shutdowns.

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Apple and internal IT have a lot in common.

Not really. But they could.

Take the App Store, and Apple’s well-known policy that before you control what you install on your iPad, Apple first controls what you can’t.

When Apple prevents you from doing what you want with a gadget you bought from it, it gives ownership a bad name.

As a metaphor for how IT might support end-user computing, on the other hand, the App Store provides excellent guidance,

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