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[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What always kept me off the "cloud" (other people's computers) is not only giving up my data but giving up control on what I spend. Corporations lure you in with flashy promises and low prices, then usually over time the service gets worse the prices go higher and higher. I'm sure the cloud hosting corporations are good at pricing their services very high but not quite high enough to make most customers cancel.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lock-in is quite an old strategy in Tech (back in the day Microsoft's dominance was built on it) and apparently every new generation needs to learn their lesson...

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That's true, back in the 1970s and 1980s IBM locked companies in with mainframes and PCs were their way out.

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