> I ... am not the expert there (although I have no idea what "deploy an app > to iCloud" really means).
It means that you would be able to put your own service on the iCloud and be able to access it from some kind of client (web browser, phone or tablet app, command line, etc). There are a lot of ways to accomplish these kinds of things. In my world, it used to be that you ran a service on your own computer (I ran a bunch of stuff off of a Sun Ultra 20 on my desk), then you might have a dedicated server somewhere attached to the Internet (I had a server room with VAXen and Suns), then various ISPs popped up, so you could run a server at GoDaddy or likesuchas, then we got tired of shared server and network stuff and started doing the VPS thing (virtual private server) that gave us the illusion of more control. At some point, someone came up with the idea of the "cloud" which is really just a big room with a lot of servers, so you don't really know which one is providing the service that you are accessing. We throw around a lot of fancy TLAs like "SOA" and FLAs like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, but basically it means that someone besides you bought a bunch of computers and you're paying them for access and they're the ones who get to take the depreciation write-off. You win because you don't have to pay for the whole infrastructure, and they win because they've locked you in to their ecosystem. > However, I do see that: [SNIP] Thanks for the info. I seem to remember that was the way it worked in the mac.com days too. > I will FULLY admit that I drank the Apple Kool-Aid a long time ago. I did too, I was OSXlover on mac.com. Unfortunately, I woke up from that dream... Regards, Doug _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
