That's just not a great analogy because I don't need a hotel for 5 years or a train forever. When you don't own it, and especially when it's a large org, you don't have much leverage when they want to change the terms.
I'm just not interested in the "you will own nothing and like it" society. I don't trust the giant corporations and landlords to do the right thing. So, I own a house, a car, and my data.
Short term, like an Uber (or a plane) it's fine, but it's not a long-term solution unless or until I can rely more.
Giant corporations are certainly a problem, because it means oligopolies if not monopolies. Like Google, Facebook, Amazon in certain areas.
For cloud services to small customers there is luckily still a bit of choice. Unfortunately I don't see that any of them would really be better if things go wrong for some reason or another. Well, if you pay them less than a hourly salary for a whole month, customer service is not really an economic option.
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That's just not a great analogy because I don't need a hotel for 5 years or a train forever. When you don't own it, and especially when it's a large org, you don't have much leverage when they want to change the terms. I'm just not interested in the "you will own nothing and like it" society. I don't trust the giant corporations and landlords to do the right thing. So, I own a house, a car, and my data. Short term, like an Uber (or a plane) it's fine, but it's not a long-term solution unless or until I can rely more.
Giant corporations are certainly a problem, because it means oligopolies if not monopolies. Like Google, Facebook, Amazon in certain areas.
For cloud services to small customers there is luckily still a bit of choice. Unfortunately I don't see that any of them would really be better if things go wrong for some reason or another. Well, if you pay them less than a hourly salary for a whole month, customer service is not really an economic option.