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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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