One by one, the big names in the 5G and IoT worlds are backing away from cloud hosting, and therefore from any shot at an end-to-end offering for distributed or industrial cloud services. AT&T and Verizon, for instance, gave up on the idea of competing with AWS and Azure and have been forming strategic partnerships with them instead – which may not stop the cloud giants from reaching further and further down into their world of connectivity (via shared spectrum) and networks-on-demand. Now the same is seen in the Industrial IoT, where the giant of this space, GE, has shifted its Predix platform away from being a GE-hosted PaaS (platform-as-a-service) to one that can be spun up in private clouds,…