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Google, MS, and Apple can also afford to abandon or kill their cloud storage services. They'll do just that if said services don't generate a billion dollars a

• danudey 12y ago
  Apple's strategy has never been to create products just for kicks and kill them off later. They spend a lot of time thinking about what they should be making, and focus just on that. I trust that iCloud, in some iteration, will be around for as long as people are buying iMacs and iPhones. Microsoft, miraculously, has been changing their spots lately, but I expect Windows Live Folders – I mean, Windows Live Skydive – or wait, just Skydive – er, I mean Onedrive – will be around in some iteration. What that will mean, though, is another question. They killed off Games for Windows Live pretty unceremoniously, and now Dark Souls, among other games, just straight up won't work properly. You can't save your game if you aren't connected to Games for Windows Live, which you can't do, retroactively crippling third party games. So for throwing my documents onto so that they still exist after I wipe my Windows machine for the Nth time, Skydive is great, but I don't yet trust them to change direction/focus and ruin any plans businesses have made around them. Google… well, they've cancelled enough stuff that I can't trust them with anything important related to business or lifestyle both.