Putting the merits of their technology aside, I've had numerous unpleasant experiences working with the CipherCloud Founders as both a Salesforce Partner and Customer. They use fear tactics to scare prospects into believing a) their data is unsafe in the cloud and b) their competition uses inferior encryption algorithms.
This DMCA takedown is unfortunately just another of their "just try and stop us" tactics.
The balance of a subjective, sensationalist headline with objective statistical simulation was impressive.
I'm a huge Heroku fan using Cedar/Java, but can't help but wonder how many optimization options remain for Rails Developers, assuming nothing else changes on Heroku:
* Serving static HTML from CDN
* Unicorn
* Redis caching with multiget requests
I click on links that open up a UIWebView and read articles on the web.
Does that count as one hour in an "app"? In reality, it's more like 20% in the app and 80% following shared web links.