Not my point. Marxian makes a great point on how you need to access servers you have no control over, thus they can do what they please with your data that's using their services. I actually don't disagree with him at all.

Thus I was merely playing devil's advocate but bringing in the fact that regardless of the hardware that you have, the level of support, be it on the device or any accompanying software option like Google Music with cloud storage, the terms and conditions of support - be it updates or actual service or access - is truly up to them. Having your stuff on you your device(s) is truly the best way - again, agreeing with Marxian.

I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents that on the device besides drag and drop USB methods, you're at the mercy of the device service provider. Think of it this way. If iTunes were to restrict music to the original iPhone because "it's too old", you'd have to jailbreak your phone just to put it on there since there's no way to place up music other than iTunes normally.

Bad example, but one nonetheless.

Fully agree. Again, I was playing devil's advocate.

Agree here too. I've been reading up on how to roll my own cloud storage so that I control it. I have a few servers that I can use to do just that...