I probably should have said economically viable. Handling and manipulating data like that is intensive and thus expensive. If it's not user provided data, why manipulate data with that approach?
Maybe it is arrogant. That entirely depends on whether or not a product or service uses this specific approach -- successfully. Do you have an example?
Edit: I also want to clarify that my comment doesn't suggest that the underlying technology is bad or without use cases; only that it isn't suited for remote (online) processing. It would be way cheaper to manipulate data like that locally.
Maybe it is arrogant. That entirely depends on whether or not a product or service uses this specific approach -- successfully. Do you have an example?
Edit: I also want to clarify that my comment doesn't suggest that the underlying technology is bad or without use cases; only that it isn't suited for remote (online) processing. It would be way cheaper to manipulate data like that locally.