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>On-line document editing, on-line spreadsheets, on-line 3D modelling, on-line recipes, on-line weight tracking, on-line todo lists... Store everything in the c

>On-line document editing, on-line spreadsheets, on-line 3D modelling, on-line recipes, on-line weight tracking, on-line todo lists... Store everything in the cloud, use everything through the browser. Documents, recipes and to-do lists gain two legitimate and significant advantages from being cloud based: sharing and collaboration. There are disadvantages too, but it's a trade-off. With a mouse driver, there's no trade-off; it's just all disadvantages.

smacktoward 14y ago
There are some advantages, at least in the case of a programmable mouse like the one in question. Once you've got all seven thousand buttons programmed Just So, you can then upload the profile to the cloud and have it automatically synced with any other machine you might happen to use the mouse with -- say, a PC at a LAN party. Of course, this is about as small as an advantage can get, since I'm struggling to think of a person who cares that much about their mouse profile who wouldn't also lug their own PC to the party. So it's not all disadvantages, it's just nearly all disadvantages.
- nodata 14y ago
  The advantage you named is no advantage: the mouse could store its configuration on the mouse, just like other gaming mice do.
  - ajuc 14y ago
    It's a "professional gaming mouse", it's supposed to be used by progamers (the ones that regulary go to LAN tournaments, have many gaming computers, and destroy 20 mouses a year). I can see how syncing mouse settings between mouses can be useful for them. Still the execution is awful.
- 89a 14y ago
  just save the settings to a human readable file instead of something ridiculous like The Registry then they can symlink it to dropbox if they care that much
- mistercow 14y ago
  That's true. The difference is that the cloud is a really good way to solve collaboration and sharing, and a really poor way to solve settings syncing for a device that is not otherwise internet-related.

smacktoward 14y ago

There are some advantages, at least in the case of a programmable mouse like the one in question. Once you've got all seven thousand buttons programmed Just So, you can then upload the profile to the cloud and have it automatically synced with any other machine you might happen to use the mouse with -- say, a PC at a LAN party. Of course, this is about as small as an advantage can get, since I'm struggling to think of a person who cares that much about their mouse profile who wouldn't also lug their own PC to the party. So it's not all disadvantages, it's just nearly all disadvantages.

nodata 14y ago
The advantage you named is no advantage: the mouse could store its configuration on the mouse, just like other gaming mice do.
- ajuc 14y ago
  It's a "professional gaming mouse", it's supposed to be used by progamers (the ones that regulary go to LAN tournaments, have many gaming computers, and destroy 20 mouses a year). I can see how syncing mouse settings between mouses can be useful for them. Still the execution is awful.
89a 14y ago
just save the settings to a human readable file instead of something ridiculous like The Registry then they can symlink it to dropbox if they care that much
mistercow 14y ago
That's true. The difference is that the cloud is a really good way to solve collaboration and sharing, and a really poor way to solve settings syncing for a device that is not otherwise internet-related.