In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever.

If it’s not on your home network, stored on a device you control completely, it’s not yours. It belongs to someone else and they can do with it what they will.

Most of ya’ll are one day going to lose all your shit, and you don’t even know it. But it’ll be gone and I can say, “I told you so.” And I damn sure will — while I still have all of mine because I have it on hardware I control, and I back it up. The “cloud” is a con.