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I can’t speak for others, but the pricing of cloud services seems absurd to me. For the price of one year of cloud storage, I could buy an external hard drive with 20x as much space. And it’s a one-time purchase for external memory, while clouds simply rent me space for a short time period. Sure, clouds mean I don’t have to carry anything around, but I’d be paying a hefty premium for that convenience.
The biggest benefit I see in using the Cloud for accounting applications is the anytime anywhere access it provides. No more worries about snow days or anything else that might keep you housebound. Another nice benefit is the ability to walk clients through the applications when they have specific questions on how to do something we both login and the client can see what I’m doing a great teaching tool.
If you’re only looking to be able to access your files from your mobile device, apps from CrashPlan, Mozy and Carbonite will do this for you. But the Dropbox app allows you to also upload