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It's good and bad to see Apple really joining in to the cloud phenomenon. On the good note, nobody has really built a cloud service worth using yet, so Apple ma
by naeem 15y ago
It's good and bad to see Apple really joining in to the cloud phenomenon. On the good note, nobody has really built a cloud service worth using yet, so Apple may very well be the first to do that. On the bad side, it's Apple, so it's probably going to come with a cost and interested developers will probably have to handcuff their left hand to a mac.
- hyperbovine 15y ago> On the good note, nobody has really built a cloud service worth using yet Dropbox and Flickr are both pretty good...
- adw 15y agoOr, um, Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo! Mail.
- achompas 15y agoOr Google Docs, Google Calendar, Evernote...
- adw 15y agoIt's fairly hard to find a large Web service which isn't "cloud" in some sense. Doesn't nearly all of Netflix run on Amazon AWS?
- JakeSc 15y agoStop downvoting this man and post a response. Do you folks not think these are cloud services?
- jmathai 15y agoA true cloud service decouples your usage from your data. Email has almost always been "cloud" (IMAP, anyway). Dropbox and Flickr? Those aren't good examples of cloud services to me because I think the biggest benefit of the cloud is that you can stop using a service but still have access to your data. I'm working on that :) - http://openphoto.me http://openphoto.me
- roc 15y agoI'm curious as to why you think Dropbox isn't a good example. You can walk away at any time and all your data is still exactly where it was last sync'd. That seems to be ideal.
- jmathai 15y agoNot if you decide you don't want to use Dropbox anymore. Your data is tied to their service (and terms of use and privacy policy and pricing).
- ugh 15y agoWhat?! That’s not how Dropbox works. The Dropbox app creates a local copy of your data that will sync with your data in the cloud. The result of this is that you always have a local copy of your data. If you stop using Dropbox all the data remains where it is on your computer.
- jmathai 15y agoOk, you do have (kinda) a point with Dropbox since they store the file locally on all computers. What I'm saying though, is that the cloud storage (not local) can be decoupled from the service. Such that if I decide I don't want to use Dropbox anymore, I still have a access copy of my files in the cloud - just not via the Dropbox software. Imagine if Dropbox sync'ed your local files with your personal Amazon S3 bucket. That's what I'm hinting at.