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>> "My RAW images are HUGE" In a few years time those will likely take less than a second to upload though. I agree, video editing, large photo editing will t

by axod 18y ago

>> "My RAW images are HUGE" In a few years time those will likely take less than a second to upload though. I agree, video editing, large photo editing will take longer to move over. >> "Until planes have free, good wifi" It'll certainly happen, it's just a matter of how quickly. I'd bet maybe 5 years :/

brk 18y ago
In a few years I will likely be shooting .RAWs that are 50MB... Some things are simply not meant to be done in the cloud. I think the right answer is to not fight the cloud OR the desktop appropriate applications. Developers should realize that for many markets, they may have to support both models to gain significant market share. Most companies have gained marketshare by customers what they want instead of forcing a particular model upon them...
- Tamerlin 18y ago
  Mine are already over 500MB. An online Photoshop wouldn't be at all feasible for me :)
  - bemmu 18y ago
    Except there will be wireless internet everywhere, and by the time you get home your camera will have uploaded your images.
    - Tamerlin 18y ago
      That's going to be a long time in coming; I shoot film, and what ends up in Photoshop is Silverfast raw in TIFF format.
krakensden 18y ago
Are you sure? At least in the US, hasn't broadband speed and cost been fairly static for the past five years. I'm not sure I would bet on super fat pipes solving all the problems with web applications. Thin clients too- I don't think you can honestly expect that. The difference between using google docs and a native application is night and day. Docs is slow, prone to pauses, and has lots of bugs related to the poor mapping between html and page layout. Either the browser is going to get a lot faster, we're going to need /thicker/ clients, or people will stay with the status quo: writing their documents in word, copying and pasting them into google docs only when they need an easy wiki.
old-gregg 18y ago
In a few years time those will likely take less than a second to upload though. If anything, Internet has been getting slower and slower due to congestion and server overloads. Upload speeds still haven't reached 100Kb/sec for 90% of the population after 10 years of affordable broadband arrival. Pushing everything into a centralized location makes absolutely no sense. Not every byte on my hard drive needs to be shared with other people. Instead we'll be moving towards rich browser runtimes, to allow on-the-fly downloaded&installed code to effectively work with local data.

by axod 18y ago

brk 18y ago

In a few years I will likely be shooting .RAWs that are 50MB... Some things are simply not meant to be done in the cloud. I think the right answer is to not fight the cloud OR the desktop appropriate applications. Developers should realize that for many markets, they may have to support both models to gain significant market share. Most companies have gained marketshare by customers what they want instead of forcing a particular model upon them...

Tamerlin 18y ago
Mine are already over 500MB. An online Photoshop wouldn't be at all feasible for me :)
- bemmu 18y ago
  Except there will be wireless internet everywhere, and by the time you get home your camera will have uploaded your images.
  - Tamerlin 18y ago
    That's going to be a long time in coming; I shoot film, and what ends up in Photoshop is Silverfast raw in TIFF format.

krakensden 18y ago

Are you sure? At least in the US, hasn't broadband speed and cost been fairly static for the past five years. I'm not sure I would bet on super fat pipes solving all the problems with web applications. Thin clients too- I don't think you can honestly expect that. The difference between using google docs and a native application is night and day. Docs is slow, prone to pauses, and has lots of bugs related to the poor mapping between html and page layout. Either the browser is going to get a lot faster, we're going to need /thicker/ clients, or people will stay with the status quo: writing their documents in word, copying and pasting them into google docs only when they need an easy wiki.

old-gregg 18y ago

In a few years time those will likely take less than a second to upload though. If anything, Internet has been getting slower and slower due to congestion and server overloads. Upload speeds still haven't reached 100Kb/sec for 90% of the population after 10 years of affordable broadband arrival. Pushing everything into a centralized location makes absolutely no sense. Not every byte on my hard drive needs to be shared with other people. Instead we'll be moving towards rich browser runtimes, to allow on-the-fly downloaded&installed code to effectively work with local data.