Most people within my circles don't use cloud storage any more, me included. This is a combination of being cheapskates, being fucked over on billing issues with no support (Microsoft), getting their account hacked (Google), actual tangible data loss (iCloud) or having genuine privacy concerns (all of them).
Over the holidays I used an admittedly large USB stick to transfer photos from my aunt’s 2011 netbook onto my MacBook signed into her iCloud Photos because she doesn’t own a computer, and both her and my 13yo cousin asked if it was a vape.
This is a copy of an infamous comment about the then-new Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Thanks -- was about to say... FTP? SVN? What year is it?!
Well that's pretty funny, but is it really?
Most people within my circles don't use cloud storage any more, me included. This is a combination of being cheapskates, being fucked over on billing issues with no support (Microsoft), getting their account hacked (Google), actual tangible data loss (iCloud) or having genuine privacy concerns (all of them).
We all have USB sticks. Some of us use rsync :)
Over the holidays I used an admittedly large USB stick to transfer photos from my aunt’s 2011 netbook onto my MacBook signed into her iCloud Photos because she doesn’t own a computer, and both her and my 13yo cousin asked if it was a vape.
This is simply amazing!