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Originally Posted by monkeyluis
The majority of people wouldn't know what to do with a USB slot. Remember, most of us are in the minority. If I hand my dad a kindle fire with an sd slot & an sd card he wouldn't know what to do. Same with the majority of people I encounter. Cloud is what it's all about. Whether you like it or not most of your personal information is already in the cloud. What's the harm in just having a few movies, your music library or some docs up there. With the backbone amazon has, your stuff is good to go.
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Perhaps it's different in the US, but one issue with the cloud is that, in the UK at least, the most common form of broadband internet access is ADSL, where downloads are much faster than uploads. Eg, with my ADSL connection, I get about 4Mbps download speed, but only about 350kbsp upload speed - more than 10x slower. It would take an eternity to upload movies to the cloud for subsequent downloading again.