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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Internet goes down and you cant work anymore???
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Its happened many many times with companies that make a gadget or app (usually a fitness fad) that stores your data in the cloud and then they go out of business and now your expensive gadget wont ever work again. Plus for those who are monitoring critical health problems but can't ever access their data to give to thier doctors because the gadget company owns it.
Its a huge privacy concern and not desirable "feature" to anything. Finally some people are realising what they gave away just to have this feature. Only YOU can keep your data safe. Some cloud solutions that let you access data anywhere on any device are handy but only while that company is still around or your subscription paid up.
Still many Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices now have their own personal Cloud solutions, so you can have a beefy "external hard drive" the NAS, at home as part of your network so you can access your files from any of your home computers plus with a web based interface to their cloud software you can have your own cloud at home that you can access anywhere in the world via an internet connection on any device.
Then your data is YOURS, on YOUR hardware, safe as you like in YOUR home. Why give money to someone else to hold your data for you so they can sell what they like to marketing firms . They are under no obligations to let you know they about to go belly up and take your files with them either.