Is it my data, or am I giving it to the startup? Why is it OK for me to not have a way to get my data should your service die, or get acquired, or the terms cha

Is it my data, or am I giving it to the startup? Why is it OK for me to not have a way to get my data should your service die, or get acquired, or the terms change? Would it be OK for Apple/Microsoft to not allow you to back up your data in a reasonable, portable format? These are still things we as users of these "cloud" services have yet to really question, yet it's going to be important as we move away from desktop applications and more towards the "cloud." It's scary. And, to answer your question, if I was running a popular startup, I would want to keep that popularity by being reasonable when users of my system asked for things. Seems like a reasonable request to me. > even if it was counter to your business model? What kind of business am I running if I don't listen to my users? Probably not a profitable one.