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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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That's why I'm sticking to independent, established services like Dropbox. Sites and apps won't start dropping support for it the moment Google Drive or whatever else comes out - too many people use it for them to do that.
If they shut their services down, that's why I have back-ups. Storing things in the cloud with no back-ups is absolutely insane.
Clouds are not back-ups. They're a way to have access to data in various places without having to carry a card or drive with you all the time. If you're worried you won't have access to internet later, just save the files you need to the device's local drive.
They're extremely practical. As a student and a reporter, I use it all the time. I have all the same files on my desktop, my phone, my tablet, or any computer in the world with an internet connection that I pull up the Dropbox website on.