I wish that "cloud", for many applications, would mean "You can tell us where to save the file and if it happens to be your Dropbox folder it will do the expected thing."
The syncing random data across computers thing is a solved problem. There are different solutions that meet different needs - some people may have their data stored on a company file server, some like to use Dropbox, some are happy with iCloud Drive, some use OwnCloud or Box.net or any number of other things.
Instead of developing cloud services to sync stuff, manufacturers should just let you pick where to save the settings and let some other sync mechanism do the job.
Re:Sonder E-Ink Keyboard
by zodPod on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:14AM
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I thought there was a relevant xkcd for this but I can't find it. Something about too many cloud services or something. Basically like "we'll save it to the cloud!" then someone going "which one?!
The syncing random data across computers thing is a solved problem. There are different solutions that meet different needs - some people may have their data stored on a company file server, some like to use Dropbox, some are happy with iCloud Drive, some use OwnCloud or Box.net or any number of other things.
Instead of developing cloud services to sync stuff, manufacturers should just let you pick where to save the settings and let some other sync mechanism do the job.