That's my gut reaction to all new cloud services. It has been my gut reaction for over 20 years, in fact. I once thought a lot about building a Dropbox-like ser

That's my gut reaction to all new cloud services. It has been my gut reaction for over 20 years, in fact. I once thought a lot about building a Dropbox-like service, but I eventually decided it would fail because decentralized services would take over instead. Then Dropbox came along... and did not fail. Against all my intuition, today, it's probably more popular than ever. I've come to realize my intuition about cloud services is wrong because I consistently underestimate how much people struggle with technology. Dropbox became popular because it solved a problem in a way that was simple for anyone with a computer or mobile device. The same story applies to nearly all consumer-focused cloud services. If decentralized services are ever going to take the place of cloud services, they need to be at least as easy to use and helpful to common computer users. Personally, I can't think of even one decentralized service that matches a cloud service in ease of use. That could change with the evolution of the Internet, but I sure don't see that change happening now. I want to be wrong, because I think decentralized is technically superior.