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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Again... who's "stranded?" Anybody who gets stranded because a cloud-based service stops or goes under isn't working smart in the first place. It's a bit silly to me that so many people seem to want to believe that people who use (and pay for) cloud-based services are all morons who couldn't possibly know how to use such services efficiently, let alone wisely. Get over yourselves. It's OK if you don't want to use them, but please, please, please stop thinking you're the only ones who have their heads on straight regarding them. It's insulting. They're not evil. They're not inherently "wrong." They're just not for you. Thankfully, the rest of the free world has no obligation to BE you.
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Using subscription-based services to provide stuff you depend on, particularly the ones where there's no alternative (like the Adobe software), just isn't smart.
And yes, I do think some subscription-based services are both wrong and evil.
For example, I'd never pay even one cent for a Windows-as-a-service subscription. I'd rather toss all my games in the bin (or run them on an older computer as long as it'll last) and move to Linux.
You pay for convenience. You pay to NOT have control over you stuff, including what you're going to pay in the future. If people keep adding subscription-based services, they'll be paying tens if not hundreds of euro's a year, and the rates in the future will only go up.
And yes, all of this is a problem, or there wouldn't be a thread about Dropbox dropping the number of devices/apps that can be subscribed. You can switch to something else; but I'm convinced, that in the end, only Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon will be in the cloud business. All the others will either have gone bankrupt, or they'll be bought.