Posted by Dave on 1/26/2009, 12:18 pm, in reply to "Google's GDrive May "Kill" The PC"
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"They" say that the future of computing lies in the cloud because you can 1) access your computer from anywhere over the internet, and 2) the host takes care of all the hardware, upkeep and updating.
But...
First: It's handy to be able to park some things on the web and access them from anywhere, but usually I'm home :^). And office workers usually are in the office, or at home using secure tunnels. Only a few workers are actually mobile and moving around during the day. So there isn't any gain for a biiig percentage of the users to computing in the cloud, IMHO. They can have their "own" computers with their own stuff on them right there in front of them. They will need some kind of computer anyway in order to access the cloud in the first place.
Second: I don't think all that many people will want to park essential or private data out "there" somewhere (where IS that cloud, anyway, and who?); they will want to keep at least some data at home or in the office where they themselves can control it. We've read too many times about data and security breaches to trust repositories we can't physically put our hands on. Bean counters especially won't want to trust very much data being stored "out there". So, if you're going to store data on your own machine, then you have to have a machine and the software that goes with it, and there goes one of the advantages to the cloud.
Personally, I don't think the cloud will kill personal PCs. Instead, most people will use some combination of cloud and PC computing, using whatever is most advantageous and secure from both.
Agree??? Disagree???
In faith, Dave
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