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The advantage of a cloud provider is that you can unilaterally sever the relationship without serious penalty.
by charonn0 14y ago
The advantage of a cloud provider is that you can unilaterally sever the relationship without serious penalty.
- xmpir 14y agoOnly if the government provides the right law...
- xmpir 14y agoWhat I tried to say is: we need the government to regulate the internet in terms of providing the right laws so users actually can take action against providers misusing their data. Just turning away from the provider is not the solution (from my point of view).
- B-Con 14y agoYou can? Migrate everything from Google to Apple. Then check back in 5 years and see if it's as painless. That was one of the author's points. We're becoming a culture where you pretty much buy into one provider or another provider. One of his assumptions was that it's only going to get more locked in and more difficult to switch. His conclusions were thinking about the future based on those assumptions.
- charonn0 14y agoI never said painless. However Apple doesn't have (yet) the power to imprison or execute anti-Apple subversives. Vive la résistance!