Most of what that person had to say about the benefits of the cloud, was BS
For example, software ownership. If I "buy" a music album and I have it on my computer, amazon.com can go out of business and I will still have my music.
But if it was all in the cloud, then when the cloud dies, so does all of the software I had on it.
The cloud can never replace local storage and having everything locally. When you go with the cloud as a replacement for local, you are amplifying your chances at failuse as not only can a hardware failure at your home PC cause you to lose data but a failure in the cloud can also cause problems.
Or for example suppose a cloud version of photoshop was released, where after buying (not renting) a copy of photoshop, it was only available on the cloud. then the cloud service decided to up and die/ go out of business, will you still be able to run photoshop.
How many cloud based music services have there been which when they dies, all of the purchased music also died with it? while some offered to help users get the music locally, most others simply died, leaving users without the music that they purchased.
Sure when you buy software, you are buying a license to use the software. but think about it this way.
I have programs from like 13+ years ago that I bought and which came with a serial number. If I wanted to, I can pop in the cd and install the software now and enter in the serial thats on the case and they will run.
But if I had the software from a cloud based service, a while back there was a service I think it was called Stream Theory
users can buy games, then play the games without downloading the entire game to their hard drive. they simply buffered some of it to their PC and the rest was read from their service, almost like a remote install to save hard drive space.
Well when the service died, so did all of the games that users purchased through the service.
Games where if they purchased retail copied, would still be working today.
Cloud has some benefits but it cant guarantee as much safety of your data and programs as you could for your self if you have them all locally.
Do you want all of your data and programs on a cloud where they are at the mercy of shareholders who can quickly kill the service when profits drop, taking your data and programs with it, does that seem like a sound investment to you?