BINGO!
don’t pay your monthly MS/Apple bill then no data for you.
ANYONE with confidential client data has to be insane to use the cloud system. It is just virtual servers with a HUGE liability stick.
Good cloud analysis. I have a darker opinion of it. Cloud computing is the opposite tactic of a content portal but with the same goal -to bound the customer to your resources creating a defacto monopoly of service. It’s stingy too since subscribers are paying for access to host-based services. The end result will likely be that their access outside the subscrption DMZ will be restricted or additional fees applied -for security purposes of course.
Cloud computing is best left for mobile devices -for now. In a few years those devices will have the power and storage to avoid the cloud -it that’s still possible at the time.