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Great, another prophet. Worst thing is, if you somehow are correct, you would not stop shoving it in people's faces how right you are. Cloud is not the future, not with the current US internet infrastructure at least.

Also why would someone pay 10 dollars a month for 50 GB of space in the cloud when you can buy 1 TB portable hard drives for dirt cheap?

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> Also why would someone pay 10 dollars a month for 50 GB of space in the cloud when you can buy 1 TB portable hard drives for dirt cheap?

housefires.

If anything I'd be more worried about thieves stealing my data. (In the literal, 'break into my house and take it.' sort of way.)

I know it's happened to at least one indie developer. And at least one youtube blogger that comes to mind.

That having been said, local hard drives aren't going to die anytime soon. Uncle McCarthy has not yet had his day, at least not on that one.

You know, encryption and a decently strong password pretty much seals the deal on somebody physically stealing your data. There is no reason to not encrypt your home computer if you are so concerned.

>You know, encryption and a decently strong password pretty much seals the deal on somebody physically stealing your data.

Maybe stealing it and using the data. If someone swipes my drive the data is still gone. Even if it is inaccessible.

Backups, offsite too.

When you consider the time and effort required for a good offsite backup, it's easier to just pay the $10/month.

If a lot of what takes up hard disk space moves to on demand providers, 50GB may go a long way to satisfying most people.

> Great, another prophet.

Heh. "Pandora didn't get half the kicking around she deserved", as I think that R.A.Heinlein jokingly put it.

(Not that I believe that GP is that prescient.)

It's Cassandra, actually, and she was pretty harmless. It's not like anybody believed her.

I'm only a prophet if I'm correct. If I'm wrong I'm just some dude on the internet.

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