I don’t get it. Is it the same? If is it possible to back up iPhone storage and being able to restore an iPhone later? How is it different from a simple external hard drive? Why people choose physical ones over virtual?
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“The Cloud” isn’t really a *technology* as much as it is an *idea*, an organizational abstraction, so “physical cloud storage” doesn’t make much sense.
Imagine you are in the upper management of a company and you need to do something about your accounting data. Right now it is on the aging workstation of an accountant who is 75 years old named Ethyl and if either one of them croaks your business is in for a bad time. The company is starting to grow and you need a better solution. So what do you do?
An internal solution is for you to do everything yourself. You buy a server rack, power supplies, some rack-mounted servers, you purchase database management software, you hire a few IT people to manage the server and software, you build out a dedicated server room, arrange for off-site backups, etc. It is a whole thing and you need to chart the network architecture on a whiteboard in your meeting room.
Or… you could just pay someone else to do it. Instead of the whole server chart on your whiteboard you just draw a fluffy cloud and point your accounting department to it. Another company manages the server, the database, the backups, etc. and all you need to do is ensure you have internet access so accounting can work. That is what “the cloud” is, it is just an organizational abstraction.
When an iPhone is backed up to “the cloud” it is just backing up to whatever solution Apple has in place to handle the storage and retrieval of that data. Chances are it is way safer than a hard drive on your desk, if perhaps less desirable in other ways. But the hard drive on your desk is not “the cloud” because you are handling all the technical aspects of the process, it isn’t an abstraction.
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