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Originally Posted by HansTWN
They want to know everything about everybody to improve their personalized ad-targeting algorithms.
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The problem everyone has is that everyone wants a super-mobile device--an iPad, a Galaxy something-or-other, a Fire, and those all come with fairly limited storage. At the same time, everyone wants access to terabytes worth of media. It's a conundrum waiting for a wise solution.
For now, my wife and I have rolled our own dropbox-style set up with a Pogoplug and Goodsync. There was a bit of a learning curve, but we can use Goodsync to sync both of our laptops to one another, and then my laptop (with up-to-date files) to our Pogoplug drive, which we can then access from any device with a web browser, anywhere in the world. And there's no storage size limit--we can always upgrade the drive to a larger one and still have all our files ready to roll.
For now, I like having all my files on my laptop--I have a huge hard drive, so it's no problem. But I'm seriously considering the Slate, and in that case, I think I might just keep my documents at hand but access my media through the web interface. Keeps my files in a "local storage" situation, allows me enjoy a tablet.