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Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud
Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud
By Robert MacPherson | AFP – 12 hours ago
…the engineering wizard behind the progenitor of today’s personal computer, the Apple II, was most outspoken on the shift away from hard disks towards uploading data into remote servers, known as cloud computing.
“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”
He added: “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away” through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to.
“I want to feel that I own things,” Wozniak said. “A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/apple-co-founder-wozniak-sees-trouble-cloud-115222245.html
“Cloud” computing is nothing new, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to an Apple fanatic. Anyone who used an FTP service in the 90′s was “cloud” computing.
The point is now that you buy digital media, and have to maintain a connection to the web in order to use it, and hope that the organization that’s hosting your stuff doesn’t lose it. It’s really kind of stupid. iTunes is a cloud already. If you buy a song and keep it there, what’s the point, really? You just licensed the right to listen to something that was already there, for as long as iTunes or your internet service provider is available.
I like to know that my media is available regardless of my ability to get online, which is why I have about 3TB Raid 5 at home.