> Their [Marc Porat, Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld] vision was now more ambitious: they wanted to put the power of a real computer into the hands of a casual mo

> Their [Marc Porat, Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld] vision was now more ambitious: they wanted to put the power of a real computer into the hands of a casual mobile user. At the time this was technologically impossible, so they thought of creating a "cloud" of services running on interconnected devices: by roaming the cloud, even a simple, weak device could muster the computing power of a real computer.