Comments on: Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud http://theridgewoodblog.net/apple-co-founder-wozniak-sees-trouble-in-the-cloud/ The Ridgewood Blog Brings a Free Market Laissez-faire Point of View to Local, New Jersey State and National Issues. Sat, 25 May 2013 23:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rob http://theridgewoodblog.net/apple-co-founder-wozniak-sees-trouble-in-the-cloud/#comment-23761 Rob Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:58:36 +0000 http://theridgewoodblog.net/?p=17604#comment-23761 “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.

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