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owning my 'own' information....cloud computing and web 2.xx is out of control

OK folks, after switching to Windows 8.1 (a few months ago) and owning an Android phone for about 18 months now, I can now say with confidence that:

owning your own information, that is the information that you use every day to manage your life IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE without the cloud.

I just tried to backup my contacts on my Android phone, having previously stopped all apps that were sucking RAM on the phone. I could barely get access to my contact list, much less back it up. To back it up I need to back it up ON THE CLOUD! That's right, I cannot do it onto a hard drive of my choice. I can download an app for a couple of dollars that will backup my stuff, but once again somewhere ON THE CLOUD. Or at least I have to register some kind of account first before I can do that.

The Sony phone software is the same. It's an expensive mess, and doesn't allow you to use the phone as a mere external hard drive. Everything happens through the proprietary, information sucking software they write. I can transfer jpgs to my hard drive, and music, but my own contacts? That'll cost you. Where are we when we have 'free access' to someone else's productions, but cannot create and own the most simple information on our own?

But it's not only Android. I cannot buy a copy of Microsoft Windows Office without registering a Microsoft .NET account. Not even if I pay the full cost of the program.

I cannot send an SMS and receive one, and back my SMSs up, without an app that Google and /or my mobile phone provider sells me.

What happened to paying for what you do and for what you use? That's long gone, replaced by 'free' or seemingly low cost services that become high cost, because everything you do is controlled by the software, which keeps updating itself without your knowledge and consent.

And say goodbye to configuring your Android phone, unless you're a developer , and even then, probably not.

We are slaves to our computers, or better said, the software that someone else writes for us!!!! SHIT.

I don't like it, but I don't know what to do about it. Besides becoming a programmer which I tried and hated. Talk about being a slave to computers, try being a programmer for one day.

The cloud seems now to own us, and not the other way around.

Rant over. And this rant probably comes as a surprise to very few here.
Cheers and out.......




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Topic - owning my 'own' information....cloud computing and web 2.xx is out of control - Tom Schuman 09:21:51 10/21/14 (7)

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