His arguments might stand for Amazon, Heroku and Google, but what about the smaller cloud vendors? Are they as trustworthy, reliant and cheap?
Even if you ignore privacy and security concerns, what do you really get for your money? The cloud ain't cheap. If the service is bad it may be easier to have a student install your web server, put in on the internet and forget about it the next few years.
And then there is there are all these cloud services you don't actually pay for, they are financed by advertising or something. You've got even less to expect there. Why not get your email account from some regional/smaller source? How can the centralization brought on by the few strong cloud vendors be better?
I wish we could too, but instead we rely on the time honored approach of charging our customers directly for our services, rather than trying to monetize with advertising or selling your data. We do offer 2GB for free for life though. Thanks for your interest regardless!
I used spideroak for a year (paid) and slowly grew to hate the client. Everthing else about the service was great and I had a large amount of trust in the company, but the client was extremely slow and unpredictable.
I wish Dropbox and SpiderOak would mate and have a child product that was as smooth, fast and easy to use as Dropbox, but with full SpiderOak grade client side encryption.
