Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by magduf on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:10AM
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1) They're too complicated for Joe Average User to understand and keep in order.
2) Companies make more money by having you store all your data in The Cloud: you have to pay (somehow) for storage on their servers, they get to comb through your data and mine it and use it to advertise to you, and the cellular companies get to charge you for access to your own data because you have to constantly transfer it wirelessly instead of keeping it local.
2) Companies make more money by having you store all your data in The Cloud: you have to pay (somehow) for storage on their servers, they get to comb through your data and mine it and use it to advertise to you, and the cellular companies get to charge you for access to your own data because you have to constantly transfer it wirelessly instead of keeping it local.