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Originally Posted by MV64
Cloud service sucks. It's a useful tool but I really don't like where they're trying to take it, forcing everyone into their ecosystems. And what happens when the government decides to shut their service down? Goodbye everything you have. Clouds help, especially if you're a businessperson I guess, but for practical every day use they're not that great especially if you don't have wi-fi or Internet everywhere you go.
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I use Dropbox as a my cloud solution because of its excellent desktop app. I don't worry about what happens if DropBox's servers are shut down because the data is mirrored across 4 computers, in addition to their servers. Just because it's stored "in the cloud" doesn't mean you can't have local copies.
I'm a little disappointed in Google though, 5GB is pretty paltry, hardly a reason to switch for me. Given what they did with Gmail (offering 1GB of storage when Yahoo and the like were offering 20MB or less), it's also a little surprising.