I work in a data centre providing connections and various other things to businesses.
"The cloud" can mean many things. As a consumer I'm just a little wary of trusting my backup to someone else for both privacy and recovery. I no longer have control over that data.
I'm a bit of a pessimist and in some ways control freak when it comes to stuff like that
Agree ... and probably the most common objection .. but in reality, you keep your data on yours and I'll keep a 2nd copy for you (simplfying of course) ... But then you have 2 sets incase some may hack your home network, which - in honesty - doesnt have a billion $ spent on security and would be V much easier for someone to access than say a data centre /cloud. Currerntly your data is kept on one or two hdd, maybe even 4 or 5 with raid .. where as in a data centre it's across several thousand /encrypted.... and of course "data" isn't that naked picture of an ex ... it's 010110100010010100101101 .... it's incredible really what they (we?) can do now ... so many implications of what's to come...
(the royal "you" btw) :D .. J