Eric Stevens
You really have difficulty in expressing what you mean. You previously wrote "a cloud outage might be annoying, but the data won't be lost" when you really meant a cloud outage might be annoying, but the data won't be lost as it should be stored in a copy else where.

nospam
there is no need to say that since the default is for a copy of the data in the cloud.

Eric Stevens
Then you should have said it was for the default case. Otherwise it's a generalisation which isn't always correct.

nospam
not only that, but one of the key advantages of the cloud multiple devices having access, so it's probably in many places. dropbox is a good example.

now ask yourself how many people have only one copy of their data on a hard drive. the answer is a lot. *they* are the ones who are going to lose data.

Eric Stevens
Ditto with people and laptops and phones.

Now you say smartphones are "*more* secure since there are no moving parts to fail" when you really meant smartphones are *more* secure since there are no moving parts to fail except buttons and switches which do not store data.

nospam
data storage is either on a hard drive or flash memory, not buttons and switches.

Eric Stevens
So?

nospam
when someone says no moving parts with regards to data storage, they mean no spinning disk.

Eric Stevens
Oh, do they? Is that what you meant? Then why didn't you say so?

nospam
only an idiot would bring up switches. they do move but that makes no difference to the data. even if every button and switch was broken, the data is unaffected.

Eric Stevens
Are you really saying that it is not possible for the failure of a button or switch to cause the loss of data? You will have to be very brave to say that: just because you don't know or can't think of an example doesn't mean it can't happen.

nospam
yes.

data is not stored in a button or switch.

Eric Stevens
Gee - that's simplistic thinking.