I enjoy the freedom of not being tied to the one single computer that cloud bases services offer. Eg, Podasts - Google Reader (access from mobile, office computer,home computer, laptop, a cafe,). Android has many apps that sync with google reader. Music - Spotify/Last.fm/Pandora/etc Video - Youtube, Hulu, Boxee, Contacts/Calendar/Mail/Photos/Docs - google
Even iTunes is apparently moving to cloud http://news.google.co.in/news/more?um=1&cf=all&ned=in&cf=all&ncl=ddanXS7TH-MvubMGd-mzfFxB-pJCM If you try it out, you may like it. On Jan 21, 11:23 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 Jan., 03:55, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I really do think the sync mindset is something from yester-decade, > > therein lies the assumption that the device is an inferior slave to a > > master/host. Of course you can always just mount the phone as a USB > > drive or transfer via bluetooth - no special software (iTunes) or > > operating system (Windows or OSX) needed. > > I suppose you mean "syncing with a PC" vs "syncing with the cloud". > My iTunes syncs my music, video, movies, play lists, podcasts, iTunes > U lectures, audio books and Outlook contacts / appointments with my > iPhone with a single app (though iTunes for Windows is pretty slow > when syncing on my laptop). Now I assume I can't do that all with a > single app on Google, so I lose convenience here. > > "syncing != copying" - when I sync pod casts, audio books or iTunes U > lectures, then iTunes remembers the position in the respective files. > For music, iTunes syncs the amount of time a song was played or its > rating no matter whether those changes came from the laptop or the > iPhone (I have automatic play lists based on both of these). I still > have an old iPod classic with some videos I want to watch and a little > Shuffle for sports, and they both get synced with iTunes, too. > > And finally, I'm a freelance and often on a client site where my > iPhone isn't allowed on the WiFi network, so I rely on the iPhone 3G > connection there (my laptop is connected to the Internet). My iPhone > price plan here in Germany only allows for 300 MB combined download/ > upload per month at full speed, after that, I get dropped to 64kBit/s > (I'm on Vodafone, T-Mobile plans suck in the same way). So syncing a > single iTunes U lecture would max me out for two months (the Stanford > iPhone dev ones are 500-700 MB per lecture). > > So unless Google has all my content in the cloud, can really sync it, > my price plan has not volume limits and the Google phone is an order > of magnitude faster with downloads (4G, probably), I'll stick with PC > syncing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
