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Cloudwashing Failed – Now We Need New Metaphors
- lmm 14y agoThe metaphor for the cloud is programming. Only it's not metaphor, it's reality. A cloud is nothing more or less than a hosting provider you can interact with via an API. I guess my best non-programming metaphor would be "it's itunes rather than a record store", but even that falls short because most people don't script their itunes purchasing. But if you're making software you shouldn't need a metaphor to understand the difference between something you can control programaticly and something you can't. And if you're not making software, what are you doing with any kind of cloud, internal or otherwise?