>Haven't seen you posting here for a while. Nice to see you back (and with a vengeance :-})
>Snip : "Get the data and the apps that businesses need or users think they need, and charge for it"
>Isn't that what we also do ? :-}

Not quite sure it applies to what I do. Last seven jobs I held, the philosophy was "ours the code, yours the data, everyone take care of their stuff".

>Again for (b)(i) it could be argued that data storage is actually safer on the cloud.

It could, but success of the argument is uncertain. It's like with independent press - it may be called so because it's independent from a government, but it still isn't independent on the whims of advertisers, owners and their merry friends. So cloud may be safer against mechanical failure, physical theft of hardware and a few such event, but probably less safer from the whims of the holder. All your data are belong to us, eh?