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Apple Purchases iCloud.com for $4.5 Million?
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Yay, DRM for everything and everybody! The future is to pay two or three or more times for everything!
The dumbest thing about the whole "cloud" nonsense is most of this crap is stored in huge buildings on, say it with me class, the ground. I'm guessing satellites are used in some form, and a lot of data passes through cell towers that are all of a couple hundred feet off the ground, but none of this crap is anywhere near a cloud.
As someone else said, "cloud" is just some new term for "Internet." Apple came up with Remote Desktop, so I don't get why the word "remote" can't be used. Alas, I'm fighting a losing battle and I know it. iCloud, woo wee!
As someone else said, "cloud" is just some new term for "Internet." Apple came up with Remote Desktop, so I don't get why the word "remote" can't be used. Alas, I'm fighting a losing battle and I know it. iCloud, woo wee!
Two issues about the cloud we don't seem to have addressed yet.
1. It has to be 100% backed up multiple times at the cloud end if you never want a story in years to come where business and families lose personal and/or private data as the cloud storage has got corrupted and thousands or millions around the world are furious that you have lost their information, like a bank losing your diamonds in you safety deposit box because the box went wrong.
Thats the 1st thing.
2. It has to be 100% secret and secure, so I can store my photos of my cat and the letters to my gran, and at the same time perverts can store their socko porn collection, and say people from the far east could store their terrorist plans.
I know that sounds crazy, but if your personal private area can be gotten into, viewed /accessed by anyone in authority then that makes the whole thing unusable. What would be next, seeing you have any copied mp3 tracks, bluray copies or cracked games stored in the cloud.
People need to trust the cloud storage 100% as they would by saving their data onto a hard drive in their computer at home.
1. It has to be 100% backed up multiple times at the cloud end if you never want a story in years to come where business and families lose personal and/or private data as the cloud storage has got corrupted and thousands or millions around the world are furious that you have lost their information, like a bank losing your diamonds in you safety deposit box because the box went wrong.
Thats the 1st thing.
2. It has to be 100% secret and secure, so I can store my photos of my cat and the letters to my gran, and at the same time perverts can store their socko porn collection, and say people from the far east could store their terrorist plans.
I know that sounds crazy, but if your personal private area can be gotten into, viewed /accessed by anyone in authority then that makes the whole thing unusable. What would be next, seeing you have any copied mp3 tracks, bluray copies or cracked games stored in the cloud.
People need to trust the cloud storage 100% as they would by saving their data onto a hard drive in their computer at home.
1,2,3... it's 'generic'.......Amazon, and MS will be all over this with 'CloudUs', 'Mycloud', 'Imymecloud'
In all honesty I don't think they use iCloud domain for anything else other then for forwarding it to me.com or apple.com (see iphone.com, itunes.com, mac.com). Its just a brand name for a service they are going to use for their new iDisk service. The real question is if its going to be only part of MobileMe or are they going to brake up MobileMe into separate services you can buy individually.
And yet again here is more evidence that I need to start buying domain names and selling them to companies...I think I will call the next one ifriend.com and when apple releases a virtual friend in 2020 I will be RICH!!!
Except that doing this will not make you rich, but end up in court.
Me too. If that company have gone from iCloud to CloudMe, it almost sounds as if they're deliberately using names Apple would need in the future (even if they themselves do run a legitimate business). I wonder how much their business makes, compared with this $4.5m.
iCloud<name>.com
I'm in the design phase of creating a web service,and I'm thinking of a domain name. Do you think Apple will/can sue me if I call it iCloud<something>.com ?
I'm in the design phase of creating a web service,and I'm thinking of a domain name. Do you think Apple will/can sue me if I call it iCloud<something>.com ?
Same here. I signed up for gmail and am staying with my time warner accounts.
Dropped mobile me as it is weak everywhere and so Apple unlike.
Incredible Apple lets this slide for such a long time.
Should have spend the 4.5 plus whatever for dropbox.
Basically, cloud is a standard symbol from computer network diagrams (and similar schemes). If there is some very complex system that provides a service and we don't really care how that system works internally, but only care about the service it provides, then that system is schematically depicted as a cloud that "hides" all its internals, so that diagrams won't be cluttered with irrelevant information.
Usually the Internet is depicted as a cloud, because usually all that's important for us is that it transfers data from one point to another and there is no need to draw every one of it's many hundreds of thousands routers on a diagram. But it's used not only for Internet, but for any complex system which internal structure is irrelevant for the purpose of a diagram.
So terms like "cloud storage" or "cloud computing" come from these diagrams where from their user's point of view they are drawn as just some clouds that cover their internal structure from our eyes.
I'm not sure about Apple acquiring them but I definitely agree with Dropbox leading the way. It's a simple yet sophisticated service, and it illustrates superbly the right way to do cloud syncing.
I hope this doesn't mean they are going to separate mobile me from this new service... I don't wanna pay for both...
Not if you count the Dutch buying half of Manhattan island for that money from American Indians.
I think I am going to register for cPad, cPod, cPhone and cMac in the hope that the build cloud based versions and switch from 'i' to 'c' ... maybe I will be a millionaire in a couple of month. Also I should go with every freaking word in the dictionary and add an 'i' and 'c' in front of it, just in case.
If Apples smart, they'll sort out & combine mobileme with this new acquisition. Charge a reasonable fee and everyone benefits.
I'm still reluctantly paying a fat fee for mobileme but I'm not renewing again next year unless its improved in performance and price.
I'm still reluctantly paying a fat fee for mobileme but I'm not renewing again next year unless its improved in performance and price.