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Not saying this in a derogatory way, but that pretty much means you are not a "normal" user but someone who is tech savvy enough to not rely on someone else's cloud.




And yet all it takes is buying a piece of hardware and installing an app, something that plenty of "normal" people do every day.

"all it takes" is a very naive simplification of how to accomplish this solution and is much more complicated for a non tech savvy person than just hitting "yes" on a backup option their phone prompts them for.

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I feel like you must be in a social bubble if you think this is a task the average Walmart American views as easy. These devices also are typically marketed for PC backup and don't usually make backing up their phones "easy". It also is something they'd have to regularly remember to do. It's substantially easier for a user to have their photos immediately and automatically backed up to icloud or Google Photos, and you're being intentionally obtuse if you're suggesting otherwise.

It's also not at all appropriate to claim people are "developmentally challenged" simply because they don't feel comfortable backing up their own data regularly to an external device. As such I have also flagged your comment.


You’re not getting parity to the actual value of the cloud apps. Cloud apps aren’t about syncing your content. They are about adding value on the content by collaboration, indexing, first-and-third-party credentials, and now AI generated content.

If you don’t acknowledge the value in that functionality, I’m assuming you aren’t collaborating with anyone..


Well the goalposts have moved outside the stadium, folks.

I wish I could “just” buy a computer and keep it permanently powered and connected.

A cellphone is a computer that is (typically) permamemtly powered and connected.

By “powered” I meant plugged in. Leaving a phone permanently plugged in would be a massive fire hazard.



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