The chances that a home DSL or Cable connection can send up data as fast as their data center can send it down, coupled with ISP bandwidth monthly caps, and things like outages or power failures make that idea less than ideal for me. Plus iCloud is free, and for $25 more they will upgrade 25,000 of my favorite songs to high quality.
But your data doesn't JUST reside on their servers. It also resides on a home mac - and a subset resides on your iOS devices. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Nathan Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: >> >> On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: >>>> With the iCloud paradigm, you no longer own your data; you're only granted >>>> access to it, and then only according to their rules. Did I not drink the >>>> right KoolAid or something? >> >> I believe you misunderstood the keynote. >> You really should revisit the keynote, in particular Steve's explanation of >> iCloud. I think you'll come to an entirely different conclusion. >> At least you should! > > Okay, to be fair I'll rewatch that portion of it. > > But here's where I'm coming from: Shouldn't the real iCloud be where everyone > has his own? That's the product I was hoping they were going to come out > with: "My iMac is my iCloud" or some such. Same functionality and > availability but *I own my data*. Why would I want all my stuff to reside on > _their_ server, not mine? I can get to my IP as easily as I can get to > theirs. I would think a simple software product atop OSX could easily take > care of this, and they wouldn't have to build that monstrous big iron > mainframe complex in Virginia or wherever, which really sounds like "Old > Think" to me... Isn't "replicated and distributed" the 21st century way? > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
