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Quote: "Now some people think that the cloud is just a hard disk in the sky. You take a bunch of stuff and you put it in your Dropbox or your iDisk or
by sjwright 13y ago
Quote:
"Now some people think that the cloud is
just a hard disk in the sky. You take a
bunch of stuff and you put it in your
Dropbox or your iDisk or whatever, and
then it transfers it up into the cloud
and it stores it, and then you drag
whatever you want back out on your other
devices. We think it's way more than
that -- and we call it iCloud."
All Steve is saying is he thinks they have a better idea for how the cloud should work. I don't see anything remotely similar to "vowing to kill" any particular service. I think his quote misunderstands the beautiful simplicity of Dropbox, but that's about it.
Most charitably, you could argue that when Steve has previously said words to the effect of "we think we've done something better," entire industries were occasionally upturned. For the CEO of Dropbox, to hear that phraseology used in their direction, I can imagine how they might interpret it that way.
- Dogamondo 13y agoI didn't watch the video to see Jobs saying this, just reading from the parent transcript, but can we be sure Jobs was actually referring to Dropbox here? And not the default shared folder that ships with OS X called 'Dropbox'? (Which many people had automated to back up dropped files to a remote server in the past).
- sjwright 13y agoUnlikely, as the built-in Drop Box isn't anything to do with cloud, it's just a way to allow people to copy files onto a networked computer without authentication.
- caycep 13y agoone could say that Houston's bayesian perception of those words were a little different.