08-06-2012, 10:53 PM | #1 |
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With the cloud you don't own anything
Since we had heated discussions regarding local, on-device storage lately (with many advocating that you don't need much local storage because you can stream everything), here are the words of the great Woz on this subject:
http://www.slashgear.com/woz-speaks-...hing-06241915/ |
08-06-2012, 10:55 PM | #2 |
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Anybody who says you don't need local storage is an idiot. You can quote me on that.
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08-06-2012, 11:17 PM | #3 |
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08-06-2012, 11:46 PM | #4 |
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I wasn't getting through to my relatives on why they needed more storage, then my Mom stepped in. She used the example of when Netflix took their favorite show off streaming and they couldn't watch it. The light came on..
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08-07-2012, 04:54 AM | #5 |
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Here's the desert, here's the monkey, ...where's the cloud?
My camel (what's left of him) for a wifi hotspot |
08-07-2012, 05:23 AM | #6 |
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Yeah and the poor monkey won't be able to read his Kindle after a while, unless it's solar powered, of course.
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08-07-2012, 05:34 AM | #7 |
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I've been saying this for a couple of years now. The only reason Woz isn't be treated like a technological prophet of doom is because he's Woz and people listen to him.
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08-07-2012, 06:00 AM | #8 | |
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08-07-2012, 06:06 AM | #9 |
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Look at what Google did with collecting everybody's Wifi data. And what happened? Were they severely punished? Does anyone really know if they have deleted any of the data? So, how can you trust any of them?
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08-07-2012, 06:29 AM | #10 | |
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08-07-2012, 07:38 AM | #11 |
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I back up all of my data to my own multiple back up drives, both business and personal. Wasn't there a pro photographer recently who lost most of his photos because the online company he stored them with went bankrupt?
Sorry, I just do not trust other companies to store my data as securely as I do. Apache |
08-07-2012, 08:30 AM | #12 |
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I think you have to backup your files yourself. You don't know what's going to happen to data stored elsewhere.
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