'Cloud Computing' - Yes/No ?

[Consultant]

Yeah as mentioned before, the T-Mobile / Microsoft cloud fail.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/801117/

I'm completely positive we will see a hybrid cloud computing system where users can keep a certain amount of data locally for when there is no connection to the cloud. To rely entirely on having connection to have my data, screw that!

HTML5 has the capability to do that.

 

[Locoweed]

My internet connection goes down far more often than my computer. If you are using cloud, you get to accomplish nothing until the net is available again. Not my thing!!

 

[EndlessMac]

My internet connection goes down far more often than my computer. If you are using cloud, you get to accomplish nothing until the net is available again. Not my thing!!

That's true too. With cloud computing you have two factors that can go down: the internet application and your own internet connection.

 

[one1]

It depends on how mobile you are..... or want to be. IPhone users are going to be a lot more prone to enjoy cloud technology since they can get into their stash sitting anywhere natively. I took the whole cloud/push thing a step up when I did this with my iPhone and can now push anything anywhere through the cloud, including all the google pics, docs, mail, video, and (using drop box) anything you can put on a hard drive in real time cloud access and instant push. It's a whole new world of user ability. There's nothing I cannot get instantly. Today I signed up for a yahoo service and I literally heard the push notification from google before my hand had left the mouse button (it let me know I had an email at Gmail from Yahoo and pushed it in less than .5 second).

With me using dropbox for the storage cloud, and google for the rest (images, etc), my 3GS 32gb iPhone is basically my computers remote control anywhere.

If I did not have that instant mobile capability..... I'd have no use for cloud whatsoever.