The "cloud" isn't fast enough. Until most everyone can access files in the cloud as fast as a local NFS connection over 1G ethernet, and do so consistently, de

The "cloud" isn't fast enough. Until most everyone can access files in the cloud as fast as a local NFS connection over 1G ethernet, and do so consistently, desktop apps are here to stay. I view the suggestion that web based photo management apps and editors are(will be) "just as good" as their desktop counterparts for "ordinary" folks with the same suspicion that I view the claims that GIMP is just as good as photoshop or OpenOffice is a suitable replacement for Word/Excel. Not likely...