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Originally Posted by Katsunami
For consumers, I don't see the point in using cloud-based services for any regularly recurring stuff. You pay and pay, and as soon as you stop paying, the service stops and you're stranded.
I know people who had big music collections. Some gave every CD they had away, because of Spotify. Now they pay €10 a month, over and over, to listen to music, over and over that they owned before. I stashed my CD's in a rack in the attic, after I ripped them to my hard drive as FLAC files, and I listen to music for free.
The only cloud-based service I'd consider would be Netflix, because I don't watch the same movies over and over again.
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For Dropbox, I think it's fair to pay as a subscription since you're paying for the service, not the content/software.
If Dropbox stops operations, I still have all my data stored locally. It's just the automatic, up-to-date syncing and offsite backup service that I'd lose.
I still buy CDs and Blu-rays for content I want to actually keep. Netflix and Spotify are fine for content I don't care to own. Mind, I don't actually subscribe to Spotify. I just use Amazon Music that comes included with my existing Amazon Prime subscription.
I do wish I didn't have to get an Office 365 subscription for my iOS devices though.