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Re:Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud by kuschku on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:33PM (#16469594)
The average person can figure out a car, can figure out how to vote in complicated voting systems, and can figure out much more.

You don’t have to dumb down things unnecessarily. If a person can buy a smart home device, plug it in and configure it, or an Apple TV, or a computer, then they can also get one of the simpler NAS, and sync with that.

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Re:Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud by arbie on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:15PM (#16470837)
Except your backup is now on-site, has no redundancy and has poor accessibility outside the home network.

Geographical redundancy and low-latency data transport are nontrivial factors in pricing cloud storage.

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