#. Why sync? Why RDX?
We live in a world where cloud computing won. All the data goes to the big server in a big huge datacenter. That gives economies of scale. That gives control and rent. Ultimately, that improves the bottom line for Big Tech. In a stable globalized world that was likely inevitable. The world is changing though.
We read in the news that European airports stopped because the big server in the cloud was not responding. A hacker attack, no less. In this new world, cables can be severed, servers can be attacked, energy infrastructure can burn any moment.
One may say, I do not live in a warzone. We are not living in W.Gibson’s cyberpunk novel either. Severed cables is force majeure, like typhoons or earthquakes. It happens.
My point is: that does not matter. Once the probability of an accedent is a bit higher than zero, that eats all the savings from the data center centralization. How much did the booking company save by not keeping the data on the end devices? Not much. What is the cost of a pan-European airport outage? Oops. These two are just incomparable.
Cloud is dead. Learn to sync.