Honestly, after this last round of hard drive failure, I'm seriously considering how much more cloud- / service-based I want my computing experience to become. The areas where I'm currently pulling out my hair (iTunes and Picasa, in pacticular) are local-based tools with extensive libraries, and there would be a lot of comfort in not having to go through trying to make them work, again, in the future.
Of course, there are costs to that — losing control of content, for one, and concerns about features, and concerns about changes in mega-corporate ownership, and hell, actually cost costs. That's a not-insignificant consideration. But I am so over workstation-centric applications that seem to have no good way to deal with moving to new machines, or dealing with machine crashes, as if the PC they are being installed onto will be the last machine the owner ever uses, world without end, amen, that I am willing to start entertaining some of these other alternatives.
I am a technologist and a philosopher all in one, and I wish my boss was that impressed with the things I say. 🙂
Or get your own Cloud storage http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-4TB-Personal-Storage-WDBCTL0040HWT-NESN/dp/B00EVVGAD0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428194595&sr=8-1&keywords=WD+My+Cloud%E2%84%A2+4TB+Personal+Cloud+Storage
+Harold Chester In reality, the cloud storage isn't that big an issue, as the cloud apps. 1