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Re: Adobe's Low hanging .... ?

Eric Stevens
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SubjectRe: Adobe's Low hanging .... ?
FromEric Stevens
Date2014-07-14 05:30 (2014-07-14 15:30)
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:27:47 -0400, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

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In article <3r06s916u3pulf9ah0ukarkdqn9erm44pv@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

Eric Stevens
I gave examples of where cloud outages and other problems _have_ resulted in the loss of data _from_the_cloud_storage_.

nospam
but that doesn't matter to the user.

they have the data locally and if the cloud service never comes back they sync to a new cloud service.

and that's assuming it's being used as a repository. that's not the only thing that the cloud is for. far from it.

Eric Stevens
The chance that data will be lost from the cloud is why people should not rely solely on the cloud for storage or even backup.

nospam
nobody said they should, and the cloud isn't just for storage or backup.

Eric Stevens
I agree that sensible people will have their data backed up externally to the cloud but there are plenty of people with smartphones and the like who think their data (mainly images) is safely backed up to the cloud and who have no other backup copy of much of it.

nospam
it's on their phone.

You persist in trying to shift the argument.

I will follow you to the extent of pointing out the phones and similar smart devices are far from secure storage.

I've known three people drop phones in the sea. I've never heard of anyone dropping a desktop in the sea.

I know two people who have had phones stolen by pickpockets. I've never heard of anyone having a desktop stolen by pickpockets.

I know one person who has smashed a phone when falling off a bicycle. I've never heard of anyone smashing a desktop when they fell off a bicycles.

Smartphones are subject to a whole lot of additional risks over and above those to which a desktop is exposed. --

Regards,

Eric Stevens

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