Bring Your Own Client
The competitive advantages of owning both the application and the data are so high that don't see widespread BYOC ever happening without government intervention.<p>I'd like to see an enforced separation in law between commercial application providers and storage providers. So, if someone writes an app like Google Docs, they <i>can't</i> just store the data opaquely on their own cloud servers. They legally <i>have</i> to integrate with a separate storage provider. And that storage provider has an obligation to make my data accessible and manageable by me.<p>This wouldn't be a panacea, but it at least makes it theoretically possible to write a replacement client for Google Docs that could be a drop-in replacement.