>> The most surprising insight was that they still ship harddrives around. Your surprise is interesting to me, because I would have predicted it, and would hav

>> The most surprising insight was that they still ship harddrives around. Your surprise is interesting to me, because I would have predicted it, and would have found the reverse surprising. To me, hard drives in this context make sense. Slow, unreliable scaled, very expensive Internet, abundant space and power for the hard drives, demand for entertainment media (as distinct from news and sports) all lead to "cache content locally". I expect limited real-time media (sports) can then be added using the limited external bandwidth available.