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Dropbox sits in that transition period from local to cloud storage. I said earlier in my comments that cloud will be an OS feature and Apple will lead that. Ho
by orionlogic 16y ago
Dropbox sits in that transition period from local to cloud storage. I said earlier in my comments that cloud will be an OS feature and Apple will lead that.
However it will not start with pure storage(their approach of experience rather than specs). It will start with your music,video, pictures. Than your ios+local apps (with preferences and save files). And then Computer setup (remember your OS setup). Thats why Apple is easy with offering SSD harddisks in their top tier products.
- tybris 16y agoThere's nothing transitional about it. This is what cloud storage looks like at its finest. Any model where you don't keep your files in local storage and sync is going to be slow, error-prone and annoying, just like all the solutions we've had before. There's certainly a case for more OS integration, and more powerful syncing, but this is the right model. I don't expect Apple to make such a big dent. They'll be in their Apple-only tunnel vision and would not be able to compete with a solution that can sync across Windows, Linux, Android, etc.
- orionlogic 16y agoBy transition i mean being more than storage solutions. Its computational network power, location independance,security etc. all the things related to cloud. You remember SETI project? Wouldn't be great if something is already integrated within. I don't see any bad in company-only tunnel visions as long as it drives innovation.