Yup, and it assumes that wherever you park that data will keep it up.
Yahoo Music users learned about that the hard way
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080724-drm-still-sucks-yahoo-music-going-dark-taking-keys-with-it.html
and they even had copies of their files locally. I suspect it will be
another thing you have to pay for. Apple certainly would keep storing
your files as long as you keep paying them. The Internet itself is very
robust as it was designed to route around dead or congested areas as
part of its military design. For internet itself to go down every one of
the jillions of connections and routers would all have to go out at the
same time. Servers/services are not quite that robust but Akami and its
ilk are getting close.
CB
James Austin wrote:
Thanks for the clarification Chris,
But surely all of this assumes that the internet is forever and is
constant. What if, one day, the whole WWW was suddenly to disappear,
clients like these would be obsolete immediately. At least until the
internet could be brought back up.
Just my thoughts
With warmest wishes
James
On 24 Jul 2008, at 22:29, Chris Blouch wrote:
Not sure if this is what he is referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
but the general idea is to have thinner clients with less storage and
instead beef up the communications so we can keep all our stuff "on
the internet" somewhere. Sort of what mobileMe is starting to do. It
eliminates the need to sync different devices, backup files or having
collections of bits in different piles. The idea has been around for
a while but the internet infrastructure was initially too slow to be
usable and then it wasn't wireless. We're right on the edge of a new
thing with fast wireless. Do I really care if my files are not on my
device as long as I can get to them anytime from anywhere? This is
what's pushing new devices like the cherry pal.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/07/22/1735222.shtml
Extending that you could have a dumb box with no OS or apps or
documents and store all that in the cloud. The box would have just
enough software to get its network up and download everything. No
more getting updates and installing them since it would always have
the latest version when it downloads the bootup code. Novell used to
do something like this back in the day with diskless PCs and special
network cards.
CB
UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:
Who exactly is this Scott guy anyways? Why should we be concerned
about his speculations?
Just curious; he just seems like a blogger to me. What is all this
cloud business he's talking about?
Olivia
On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:18 AM, James Austin wrote:
Hi folks,
How do I leave a comment on this article? Sorry for asking what is
probably a really obvious question, but I have not yet found where
this is. Although I have read the comments that were make by some
on this list.
Is there any way we could get in touch with Apple directly to pass
along our concerns. I mean it is very likely that Apple have people
who search for Apple related publicity and such on the web, but it
is also just as likely that they miss a lot as the internet is such
as vast place.
Just my thoughts
Thank you
With warmest wishes
James
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On 24 Jul 2008, at 05:11, Janet and Felix * wrote:
I read your comments. Very well spoken. Scott didn't have much
of a comment back though. I thought he was just patronizing. But
the seed is planted. The idea was put out there.
Janet
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: what do you think?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:58:05 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I sure hope it doesn't go backwards. Apple is just getting good!
On Jul 23, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Mike's Western Account wrote:
i did as well. and this does have something to do with vo, what do
you all think will happen with vo?
On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
I made a reply over there stating that I'd found the post here and
expressing my concerns. This is definitely something that we all
need
to watch very closely. It doesn't sound good at all, and I,
for one,
would hate to see Apple go backward, especially considering how
far
they've come with relation to accessibility.
On 7/23/08, Mike's Western Account wrote:
so this makes someone wonder what will happen to vo, If this
is the
direction that apple goes It makes you think for sure that if
this
is
where it goes and apple does choose to keep voiceover
included, then
there would be access to the iphone. Anyways just
speckulation, but
check it out:
http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/iphoneblog/2008/07/its-the-cloud-s.html
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