Interesting, for sure. It creates an interesting trust problem that to a smaller degree I guess we're already living with. The more you have invested in hardware/software/data (data like photos, home videos, important docs, music, etc) the more you depend on the whole gig (pun?) staying afloat. If Apple shut down tomorrow, surely I could (unplug and) keep my iPhoto library, my iMovie files (such as they are) and my iTunes library running on my desktop. I've got an external backup, too. I just wouldn't get any software updates and whatever. If it's all in the cloud, though, well that's a problem I'm not the first to consider. My thought is simply that there'll always be a market for user-owned and controlled off-the-gridable storage as well as hard/software. The technology pie is still expanding, though, and it'll surely be interesting to see where all this goes.
Interesting, for sure. It creates an interesting trust problem that to a smaller degree I guess we're already living with. The more you have invested in hardware/software/data (data like photos, home videos, important docs, music, etc) the more you depend on the whole gig (pun?) staying afloat. If Apple shut down tomorrow, surely I could (unplug and) keep my iPhoto library, my iMovie files (such as they are) and my iTunes library running on my desktop. I've got an external backup, too. I just wouldn't get any software updates and whatever. If it's all in the cloud, though, well that's a problem I'm not the first to consider. My thought is simply that there'll always be a market for user-owned and controlled off-the-gridable storage as well as hard/software. The technology pie is still expanding, though, and it'll surely be interesting to see where all this goes.
Interesting, for sure. It creates an interesting trust problem that to a smaller degree I guess we're already living with. The more you have invested in hardware/software/data (data like photos, home videos, important docs, music, etc) the more you depend on the whole gig (pun?) staying afloat. If Apple shut down tomorrow, surely I could (unplug and) keep my iPhoto library, my iMovie files (such as they are) and my iTunes library running on my desktop. I've got an external backup, too. I just wouldn't get any software updates and whatever. If it's all in the cloud, though, well that's a problem I'm not the first to consider. My thought is simply that there'll always be a market for user-owned and controlled off-the-gridable storage as well as hard/software. The technology pie is still expanding, though, and it'll surely be interesting to see where all this goes.
Interesting, for sure. It creates an interesting trust problem that to a smaller degree I guess we're already living with. The more you have invested in hardware/software/data (data like photos, home videos, important docs, music, etc) the more you depend on the whole gig (pun?) staying afloat. If Apple shut down tomorrow, surely I could (unplug and) keep my iPhoto library, my iMovie files (such as they are) and my iTunes library running on my desktop. I've got an external backup, too. I just wouldn't get any software updates and whatever. If it's all in the cloud, though, well that's a problem I'm not the first to consider. My thought is simply that there'll always be a market for user-owned and controlled off-the-gridable storage as well as hard/software. The technology pie is still expanding, though, and it'll surely be interesting to see where all this goes.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, for sure. It creates an interesting trust problem that to a smaller degree I guess we're already living with. The more you have invested in hardware/software/data (data like photos, home videos, important docs, music, etc) the more you depend on the whole gig (pun?) staying afloat. If Apple shut down tomorrow, surely I could (unplug and) keep my iPhoto library, my iMovie files (such as they are) and my iTunes library running on my desktop. I've got an external backup, too. I just wouldn't get any software updates and whatever. If it's all in the cloud, though, well that's a problem I'm not the first to consider. My thought is simply that there'll always be a market for user-owned and controlled off-the-gridable storage as well as hard/software. The technology pie is still expanding, though, and it'll surely be interesting to see where all this goes.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, for sure. It creates an interesting trust problem that to a smaller degree I guess we're already living with. The more you have invested in hardware/software/data (data like photos, home videos, important docs, music, etc) the more you depend on the whole gig (pun?) staying afloat. If Apple shut down tomorrow, surely I could (unplug and) keep my iPhoto library, my iMovie files (such as they are) and my iTunes library running on my desktop. I've got an external backup, too. I just wouldn't get any software updates and whatever. If it's all in the cloud, though, well that's a problem I'm not the first to consider. My thought is simply that there'll always be a market for user-owned and controlled off-the-gridable storage as well as hard/software. The technology pie is still expanding, though, and it'll surely be interesting to see where all this goes.
ReplyDeletehey, ignore my two previous attempts to comment. didn't know comments had to be approved. CENSORSHIP!!!
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