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It makes sense for Apple to outsource this but I wonder if this is going to limit them down the road. I think Google has a tremendous advantage with their in-ho
by cageface 15y ago
It makes sense for Apple to outsource this but I wonder if this is going to limit them down the road. I think Google has a tremendous advantage with their in-house expertise and infrastructure here. My instinct is that it's harder to get that right in the long run than it is to build acceptably user-friendly interfaces. The real connaisseur may continue to prefer Apple UI but Google's good enough for the rest and I won't be surprised if cloud integration becomes the key differentiator down the road.
Sun was right on the money when they claimed that "the network is the computer". They were just a decade too early.
- dillona 15y agoThere is opensource software (via OpenStack) to run a distributed blob store like this at scale. My guess is Apple just doesn't want the hassle of dealing with it and/or this is temporary while they get their hardware set up
- cageface 15y agoThat's like saying that Google's prowess with map-reduce is irrelevant because we also have Hadoop. This stuff is very hard to get right and nobody does it better than Google.
- Angostura 15y agoI wonder whether this is just a function of the beta while they are waiting for the paint to dry on their new data centre.