On 6/28/2011 6:30 PM, notbob wrote:
On 2011-06-28, wrote:

All those things will be in the cloud.

Another fantasy scam!!

I won't even put my real name on the internet, let alone important
data. In case you haven't been paying attention, hackers are hacking
everything in sight, including govt security agencies! Putting
information on the cloud is a fool's game.

Cynically speaking, it's a good move if you want to outsource the
security issues and subsequent liability for when the security gets
breached. I can see companies choosing this for precisely that reason
- "Losing your data to hackers was not our fault! It was the cloud
storage company's fault!"

If you actually care about your data and security, that's a problem.
If you rely on cloud services, your data and apps will be a hostage to
the company's fortunes. **** them off? Congratulations, you've just
lost access to your data. Company went bankrupt? Same thing.

Ironically, the cloud concept is inherently disadvantageous to
American IT companies, because anything stored on US-based servers can
be accessed by the US gov't on demand. Foreign-based corporations and
individuals don't like that one bit. If they choose the cloud, they
will (and are) choosing companies that can keep their data offshore
and out of the US gov't's hands. This places US cloud service
providers at a competitive disadvantage. Of course, if it isn't the
feds snooping, it's the Chinese hackers you've got to worry about.


10 inch tab not big enough? They will get bigger.

Yeah, like I'm gonna hump around a 19" cellphone/pad.

They won't get bigger. There's a reason why the majority of books fall
within a fairly small size range - they're meant to be portable, after
all. And lcd screens are a good bit more fragile than books, and are
the single largest consumer of electricity in an electronic device.
Increase the screen size, you gotta increase the size of the battery,
too. Now you're talking real weight and bulk issues.