But with Apple and Google, I know my data won’t go missing because the p2p network decided to stop seeding my file. Torrents die all the time due to lack of seeding.
Filecoin (and other decentralized storage systems) provide monetary rewards and penalties for storing or failing to store files. This is introduced in Section 4.1.1 of this paper.
The bad thing is that you would not be able to hold them responsible.
And on private torrent sites, where there is an incentive (usually non-monetary) to seed torrents, torrents really don't die all that often.
To go even further, if you orchestrate several miners carefully (maybe computationally) they can together perhaps stop people from accessing certain files.
It'd blame Apple & Google for not being p2p seeds.