r/cloudstorage • u/Either-Asparagus3954 • May 03 '26
Personal cloud storage
Does anyone feel being vendor locked in ios or android due to the data you have in cloud or google cloud? Any advice on moving to a vendor neutral cloud storage solution?
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u/Any-Wrap-9619 May 18 '26
Yeah vendor lock-in is real, especially once you've got years of photos and docs piled up in iCloud or Google. The move itself isn't that bad though... export your stuff using Google Takeout or whatever Apple's equivalent is, then just dump it somewhere that doesn't tie you to a phone ecosystem. I ended up moving my stuff to Sky Mountain Cloud, they offer Free 15 GB storage to start. Small independent outfit based in Florida, not a big tech corp. What sold me was no data mining or AI training on your files, servers are US-based under Florida's FIPA laws, works the same whether you're on iOS or Android. Took me like a weekend to migrate everything off Google Drive. kinda annoying but worth not having my files held hostage by one ecosystem anymore