Because local data is no longer a relevant matter for the consumer market from the perspective of the corporations. Your media is in the cloud, your communicati

Because local data is no longer a relevant matter for the consumer market from the perspective of the corporations. Your media is in the cloud, your communications are in the cloud and apps are re-downloadable. Of course all of this has the capability of being defective down the road or missing something, but so does local storage. The endgame seems to be local cache, edge-retained warm storage and cloud-based bulk storage, all managed transparently.