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Are cloud services good enough to store our digital life? (Open_Tab)

From baby photos to your next novel, we go over the pain points and conveniences of today's cloud services. What are your favorites?

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Dropbox, Amazon Cloud, Google Drive -- these services all promise to make everything from baby pictures to work documents available on any device. But at what pain points?

Jeff Bakalar, Roger Cheng and Ben Fox Rubin talk about the services they use in this Open_Tab excerpt, and touch on the Nextbit Robin -- a phone that came out earlier this year promising cloud storage for everything.

What are your favorite cloud services? And what are your frustrations with them? Talk about it in the comments.

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