> Blaming consumers for choosing the many conveniences of cloud data when the incentive structure has been carefully tailored to funnel our data into their poss

> Blaming consumers for choosing the many conveniences of cloud data when the incentive structure has been carefully tailored to funnel our data into their possession and control is truly a superficial take. Couldn't have said it better. Just consider Apple as an example: Some time ago, they used to sell the Time Capsule, a local-first NAS built for wireless Time Machine backups. Today, not only has the Time Capsule been discontinued, but it's outright impossible to make local backups of iOS devices (many people's primary computing devices!) without a computer and a USB cable. Considering Apple's resources, it would take negligible effort to add a NAS backup feature to iOS with polished UX ("simply tap your phone on your Time Capsule 2.0 to pair it, P2P Wi-Fi faster than your old USB cable" etc.) – but they won't, because now it's all about "services": Why sell a Gigabyte once if you can lease it out and collect rent for it every month instead?