I think the use-case of cloud storage is mostly marketing by cloud provides to show relevance to the consumer. They are are loss leaders at best; used to lock you in to their services / track your every move; at worst.
I think the comparison with a $20 1TB hdd is perfect. Cloud providers, and phone makers, have convinced you to have your photos, music, data, online, always. Like a bank. Among other things, its much easier to mine your usage patterns that way and enforce DRM of other cloud services.
I have my IDE PC drive from 20 years ago. It still works. I can burn a CD if im that worried about failure. I dont need the redundancy of a billion user website, a networking api, access control, all that other crap you use in enterprises that comply with ISO standards.
Before cloud providers, people didnt take their photos to Apple and tell them to store them. The only reason u do it now, is because of marketing and service integration.
I think the comparison with a $20 1TB hdd is perfect. Cloud providers, and phone makers, have convinced you to have your photos, music, data, online, always. Like a bank. Among other things, its much easier to mine your usage patterns that way and enforce DRM of other cloud services.
I have my IDE PC drive from 20 years ago. It still works. I can burn a CD if im that worried about failure. I dont need the redundancy of a billion user website, a networking api, access control, all that other crap you use in enterprises that comply with ISO standards.
Before cloud providers, people didnt take their photos to Apple and tell them to store them. The only reason u do it now, is because of marketing and service integration.