Among other things, I keep my business' financial data in an encrypted folder. I don't see how having a methods of keeping files safely encrypted is "gimmicky". I do understand how you may not have any data worth safe keeping but that's just you.
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Apple 'Safe Deposit Box' Patent Revealed Ahead of Mac OS X Lion
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Among other things, I keep my business' financial data in an encrypted folder. I don't see how having a methods of keeping files safely encrypted is "gimmicky". I do understand how you may not have any data worth safe keeping but that's just you.
Well, this sounds cool and all, but if it comes with the "reliability" of iDisk, I'll stick with Dropbox, thank you very much.
PGP is a great product (for now). I do have concerns that Symantec will ruin it, though. It has ruined other products it acquired.
Truecrypt will never support WDE on the boot disk as long as it uses MacFUSE - it is technologically not possible. It would have to be rewritten as a kernel extension, and I doubt that will happen unless someone forks it.
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HD Movies and TV Shows really eat up space.
I've also ripped several hundred DVD's, and over 1000 CD's in ALAC.
It just keeps adding up.
I don't pirate anything I have many friends who work in the industry so I would never do that.
Why are you two so concerned about this? This could be potentially very good for Apple users. It'll be a service native to OS X. Reason to celebrate, if anything.
yet what does our comment have anything to do with Apple but calling this a joke patent and maybe an example of a reason our patent systems needs a massive overhaul.
We do not all worship at the alter of Apple.
But Snow Leopard was never marketed as a 'feature release', it was seen a 'under the hood' release - so if you felt let down it is because you refused to listen to what Apple was explicitly stating.
Lion on the other hand will be an interesting situation for Apple - I'd sooner they make it a 'bug fix and update' release than adding new features; I want long standing Appkit bugs being fixed which make development difficult on Mac OS X, OpenGL updated to 4.x, graphics drivers better optimised for gaming performance, bringing in a webkit2 compliant browser and maybe even a move to the 64bit kernel by default on those platforms that support it.
fact that we already have multiple services that run like that. You have drop box for example. MS already has had multiple systems like that in place for years.
You may not see it in MS system in play in the consumer space so much does not change the fact that it been out there for years now.
That is my bases of it. It is a system we have had around for years. Just because Apple all of a sudden put a joke patent on it does not change the fact that at this point the patent is a joke and no way it would ever hold up in court and safe to bet Apple knows it.
The only reason I can see Apple even creating this patent at all is to defend itself from patent trolls. Out side of that it is completely worthless.
Well I'm glad one of us has read Dropbox's and Apple's patent filings in detail. It must have taken you a great deal of time. For a second there I was worried. And what's even better, now I know that cmaier isn't the only person on these forums who specializes in IP law. Why didn't you say anything before?
Yes, because that is certainly a simple and easy to understand consumer centric approach to doing such a thing.
LOL!!! The Apple Lock Box. AL GORE!!! YOUR FILES WILL BE SAFE FROM THE INSOLVENCY OF SOCIAL SECURITY!!!!!
Seriously though, Lion is really shaping up to be a whole lotta nothing I want or need.
...based on the occasional rumor and speculative article.
Have you even looked at the actual claims of the application? You can't tell whether or not a patent is valid by reading what some blog posts about its abstract.
One of the "new" features of Lion is the "Launchpad".
Those of us old enough will realize that Apple had something very similar a loooong time ago in System 7 that they killed with Mac OS 8: The Launcher
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Please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers that
Hardly! It was the only thing I could employ to keep my cousins from getting into their parents' system folder. LOL
I'm not sure that is the point of the feature. More like dead simple cloud-based storage.
Should be interesting to see what Lion holds. So far, it seems like less than Snow Leopard. Unless they have big surprises in store for the Apple WWDC, I'm guessing Lion may be a free update to Snow Leopard users.
Exactly! I need MORE information, which is why I visit this site. But when it fills with garbage like 7" iPads and Apple-branded TV sets, I can only shake my head......based on the occasional rumor and speculative article.
First of all, I would NEVER backup to a cloud. The cloud could get compromised. Seco d of all, you can just simply install a free app called "change visibility" which enables you to hide any file/volume/app you want. Its easy to "unhide" it again as well.
I would love to see this on Lion. I all ready use dropbox, but manly for photos from iPhone to iPad to Mac. But If I could use this to keep safe my important files like iTunes and RAW files I'll be very happy. I just hope they don't charge to much for more storage.
Yup. So many people do not understand the difference between the 18 month publication of a patent application and an actual granted patent.
i'm still not comfortable with the cloud keeping all my data - unfortunately I feel this is the way its gonna be down the line - I have to say having a cloud vault seems novel though - but - i'm not a believer in this new fangled cloud thing yet