On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

> 
> I believe the (only major difference in the long term will be Apple's use of 
> native apps and Google's use of Web apps (client in the browser - which also 
> means all local storage in the browser cache or persistent store).  
> 
> There is computing power and storage on the server side and on the client 
> side and both solutions (Apple's and Google's) will eventually use all of 
> this computing power and storage in some way or fashion.
> 
> Note as Apple is moving away from using file systems then it becomes even 
> more like Google's solution since the files are kept inside the app. 
> 
> I wonder when it will be an option not to use a file system on a Mac - 
> probably never, probably have to wait until iOS (or a more merged iOS and Mac 
> OS X) comes to laptops and desktops.

The cloud _is_ the filesystem.

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