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.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 can't just store the data opaquely on their own cloud servers. They legally have to integrate with a separate storage provider. And that storage provider has an obligation to make my data accessible and manageable by me.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.