Even though I'm a recently converted Android user, I have used an iPhone for the last three years. All of my song stuff is through iTunes, but I'm not really excited for iCloud - I would much rather get a Google Music invite. Even then, I'm worried that at some point I won't have a data connection and I will not be able to access my music.
This cloud stuff kind of scares me because it takes the control away from me. I understand that it also enables me to be more free from my information, but I don't think cloud services will really take off until our country, or most of the world, is blanketed in constant internet connection.
I'm sure that iCloud will have some feature to allow you access to your stuff when there's no connection, like Google Music lets you pin certain playlists or albums to be stored locally on the phone, but what if you forget to pin something before your flight?
I'm just a little worried that we're rushing into the cloud before we have the means to weather the storm.
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Yeah, it is quite worrying that we are accelerating at a breakneck pace towards cloud technology. We can see the apparent benefits of cloud apps such as Dropbox, which many users embraced, for cloud storage and syncing, and Evernote, a cloud note-taking and file manager app as well.
But the problems with the cloud can be seen as well, with the most obvious being Danger (from Microsoft). The data loss that had affected Danger was quite significant, and recently (Can't find the article that I just read today - sorry.) MS has decided to shut down the Danger servers, leaving the customers without the push email and other features that came with the Cloud.
Are there many positive parts of the Cloud? Definitely. Negative parts? Of course. The best way to do Cloud would be to do your own Private cloud, which would be supported by yourself. But for big companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, they have no financial incentive to support such a project. For now, we are treading into unknown territory.
But the problems with the cloud can be seen as well, with the most obvious being Danger (from Microsoft). The data loss that had affected Danger was quite significant, and recently (Can't find the article that I just read today - sorry.) MS has decided to shut down the Danger servers, leaving the customers without the push email and other features that came with the Cloud.
Are there many positive parts of the Cloud? Definitely. Negative parts? Of course. The best way to do Cloud would be to do your own Private cloud, which would be supported by yourself. But for big companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, they have no financial incentive to support such a project. For now, we are treading into unknown territory.
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The first rule of data managment is back it up, back it up, back it up. Although cloud services do provide ease of access to data from any where, I would never trust the cloud to by the only place my data is stored.
I have been invited to the Google Music beta. I haven't had much time to play with it yet, but I imagine it would be nice to access my music from my phone anywhere and from my work computer without having to copy things over to different devices. But I will always, no matter what have a copy on my PC and my back up drives.
One cloud service I really like is dropbox. Every time I place a file in there it gets copied to my work computer, my home computer, my laptop, and my cell phone as well as the cloud. It has done away with my need for a flash drive on my key chain (although I still carry one) and I know my documents are backed up and available in multiple physical places. However, I still back up the Dropbox folder on my home computer regularly, cause if they get deleted from the server some how, they can also be deleted at each location.
I have been invited to the Google Music beta. I haven't had much time to play with it yet, but I imagine it would be nice to access my music from my phone anywhere and from my work computer without having to copy things over to different devices. But I will always, no matter what have a copy on my PC and my back up drives.
One cloud service I really like is dropbox. Every time I place a file in there it gets copied to my work computer, my home computer, my laptop, and my cell phone as well as the cloud. It has done away with my need for a flash drive on my key chain (although I still carry one) and I know my documents are backed up and available in multiple physical places. However, I still back up the Dropbox folder on my home computer regularly, cause if they get deleted from the server some how, they can also be deleted at each location.
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i agree, the cloud is an option, not the only option! it is a convinence to have if you have good connection and high bandwidth, to share and access from anywhere. but we still need our stuff on our local hdd, and players!!!
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What is unfortunate is google is pushing for more cloud access and less local storage. In fact, the galaxy tab 10.1 doesn't have an SD slot because of google's push to the cloud. I guess google doesn't realize we all don't have fast cloud access 24x7.
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