The internet also fundamentally changed how people perceive of their data being accessible. When I was trying to give advice to someone after their Chromebook bit the dust (from being dropped too many times), doing things like using a thumbdrive to maintain portable copies of the local data on the device... It was met with a can of worms of further questions starting with:
a) what's a thumbdrive?
and
b) what's local data?
Each answer resulted in even more questions. Why isn't it in the cloud? What do you mean I'd have to copy it again? I can run out of room?
I could understand needing to get across to some people that not all data ends up synced (eg, saved memes are not necessarily automatically backed up to Drive)... but reaching a point to where people could be completely unaware of USB storage media actually shook me to my core.
People now expect it all to just "be there" after they log in.
I lived through having to move data using flash drives or by emailing files to myself. Heck in some cases the data had no easy way to transfer so I had to pick what device was the most convenient to have the data on. During that time it was my dream to just have everything automatically in sync.
I very much do not want to have to go back to that crap. Having it all "be there" is exactly how I want things to be.
Ah yes. The cloud that we (society) have become so accustomed to. Keeping in mind, this definition often always refers to either Google's or Apple's storage plans.
I believe one of the reasons for phones nowadays that come with 64GB or less storage, is you can push this limitation with cloud backup.
a) what's a thumbdrive?
and
b) what's local data?
Each answer resulted in even more questions. Why isn't it in the cloud? What do you mean I'd have to copy it again? I can run out of room?
I could understand needing to get across to some people that not all data ends up synced (eg, saved memes are not necessarily automatically backed up to Drive)... but reaching a point to where people could be completely unaware of USB storage media actually shook me to my core.
People now expect it all to just "be there" after they log in.