On Jun 7, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: > > 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.
That's the model we've had for the past decade - the Mac is the hub, with all these other things sync'ing to it. That model doesn't work very well. How many times have you had issues with iCal or Address Book getting sync issues screwed up. If that data lives in the cloud, sync goes away, problem solved. Also, increasing numbers of people have just an iPad or even just an iPhone, no computer. How can they sync to a Mac they don't have? Steve said the Mac has been demoted. It's just another device connecting to the cloud now. It's a much smarter way to go. The days of the personal Mac as the hub are coming to an end. > Same functionality and availability but *I own my data*. Why would I want all > my stuff to reside on _their_ server, not mine? I So your sync issues go away? So you finally have the off-site backups you've always wanted but never got around to dealing with? So your presence is truly portable between devices? > can get to my IP as easily as I can get to theirs. Not if you're behind a router, which most home users are. And if you own multiple Macs, which one is canonical? Which one is the hub? Make the hub go away. > 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? No - "replicated and distributed" was the MobileMe way. MobileMe is dead. Good riddance. The cloud model is much cleaner. ./s _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
