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A paid service to merely move files between the proprietary storage containers of all the different services you use?

Decades after the concepts of filesystems were established, we're stuck in an ecosystem where our new tools can't easily get to generic storage without paying, thanks to the fact our platform du jour only exists because of years of pounding a square peg into a round hole?

I FUCKING LOVE THE CLOUD.

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Exactly. The point of moving to the cloud is that your are giving your data to company X, company Y, etc. Of course, both company X and company Y would like all your data, so company X will make super hard to move data to company Y and vice versa. So you are stuck.

And cloud services are mixing "storage service" and "software as a service" so in order to use service of company Z (like project management or something like that) you need also give data to company Z. Which is hard because your data is with company X.

Long story short: I also fucking love the cloud: we kinda went backward in time.

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