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Originally Posted by elcreative
Like I want my own data stored on someone else's equipment out of my control... as has been pointed out many times, the idea of personal computing is embodied in that one word "personal," an escape from the high priests of the main frame and mini to control your own computing and data... now the idea is "cloud" and "online processing" to once more hand control back to other people... no thanks, my data, my computer/tablet/ereader/smartphone...
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Of course you shouldn't ONLY have your data on someone else's cloud storage - you need to make your own backups, too. It's simply a convenient method of accessing it from anywhere. That's why services like Dropbox (which runs on Amazon's cloud) are so popular.