On Sunday 22 November 2009 04:11:15 pm [email protected] wrote: > 10 years sounds like a long stretch. Most Netbook users > are exposed to some 'type' of cloud (e.g. http://box.net > or https://one.ubuntu.com). Google is simply trying to > monopolize the cloud with more sophisticated 'apps' > betting that WE can and should trust them as the > technology power player... which, surprisingly we did > with gmail while it was still in beta. In context WE > will tend to rely more on the google cloud than any of > the others. I wonder if its fair to say they've borrowed > a page from Jean Piaget on Object Permanence.
If you think about it, "cloud computing" is nothing new to us. This isn't the first time we've stored some part of our lives in "the cloud". As basic as Hotmail and Yahoo were back then (and may still be, today), having a mobile e-mail client that doubled as a file storage centre was some form of "trust in the cloud". It's not new, it's not revolutionary. It's just evolving, like most things on the Internet - and for the same reasons most never fully transformed to web-based e-mail will be the same ones a few folk continue to localize applications. Mark.
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