Yes, but if you have your own datacenter and some spiffy new software or device comes on the market, you can buy it and set it up. You can take advantage of inn

Yes, but if you have your own datacenter and some spiffy new software or device comes on the market, you can buy it and set it up. You can take advantage of innovation from anywhere. If you are sitting in Cloud A and Cloud B introduces some new thing... you're out of luck until Cloud A (who knows you're not going to move) decides to offer something similar.