While I do agree with the fragility and lack of ubiquity on a global
basis, the basis of the internet backbone architecture was to be able to
route around outages. Of course that all depends on multiple possible
routes to any particular node and that tends to fail at the last hop -
the wifi connection to your laptop or the cell connection to your mobile
device, not the internet itself. Back in the day we would would run ring
networks of x.25 connections at 56kbps so if one of the connection was
severed the traffic could just run the other direction around the ring.
Anyway, for me and my general roaming area the iCloud stuff has worked
just fine. I do tend to sync my phone over USB just because I often plug
it into my laptop to charge.
CB
On 3/19/14 5:08 AM, Rigor Mortis wrote:
There are over 7 billion people upon earth.
Just over 2,4 billion have internet.
Of that 2,4 billion, about a third have broadband access.
Way less than a billion have reliable, uninterrupted services at affordable
prices.
Cloud-based computing in general is therefore not widespread.
Apple has a small global footprint yet a fair share of its user base are
located in regions without practical broadband connectiviity. We bought Apple
for its local sync, especially via tethering.
In global terms, iCloud users are by far a minority. If you live away from the
USA, you soon realise how fragile and compromised the Intetnet is. Natural
disasters, power outages, accidents and even terrorism/sabotage can and do
interrupt connectivity. This post will travel 23,140km via a detoured undersea
cable so that it can be saved on Apple's servers. It goes from the tip of
Africa along the west coast up to the UK and from there across the Atlantic to
the USA. The cables get severed and on our harbour there are two ships that
have the immense task of maintaining these cables.
My USB cable is two feet long and works better and is not exposed to risk.
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