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Has Apple said yet, what new server farm is for?

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Sorry if this is an old question.... but I'm a new person. 😱
 
App Store is growing and more devices that can access App store are sold all the time. That means more storage and servers are needed for smooth operation. Hopefully, there will be new MobileMe though
 
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hellhammer: So it's not for providing some new service... it's just for doing what services they provide today, to an expanding customer base?

Sigh.

So this isn't what SJ meant by "taking it to the next level" this year. (What is? The phone was the whole "next level"? Unfortunately, what I need is a viable non-obese laptop, not a fancier phone.)

Meanwhile... the Macbooks/Pros are all a "level" or 2 or 3 behind the competition (adding USB3, have had 3g for a decade/+, etc. etc.)... except the MacBook Air with its tiny RAM - which is almost a living fossil at this point.

Come to think of it, "taking it to the next level" is just a biz chiche anyhow... so maybe coming from SJ, it didn't mean anything in particular.
 
Does anyone know when the new data center is almost finished? I know they've been working on it a long time but is it close to being done?

I just signed up for MM a couple days ago and I find iDisk to be unusably slow. Hopefully they beef that up as part of their new datacenter capabilities.

Ruahrc
 
Brien said:
My personal hunch is it's for FaceTime.
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I may be understanding it wrong, but I really don't see where Facetime requires a datacenter? Adding a datacenter is not going to increase the available bandwidth of the ATT 3G network- nor will it affect anyone's wifi network either. It would seem most logical for facetime connections to be peer-to-peer without having to route through a sever, so I don't see where a facetime connection would need a data center of any kind?
 
Ruahrc said:
I may be understanding it wrong, but I really don't see where Facetime requires a datacenter? Adding a datacenter is not going to increase the available bandwidth of the ATT 3G network- nor will it affect anyone's wifi network either. It would seem most logical for facetime connections to be peer-to-peer without having to route through a sever, so I don't see where a facetime connection would need a data center of any kind?
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facetime is p2p, - a simplified ichat with some portmapping tools
 
Ruahrc said:
I may be understanding it wrong, but I really don't see where Facetime requires a datacenter? Adding a datacenter is not going to increase the available bandwidth of the ATT 3G network- nor will it affect anyone's wifi network either. It would seem most logical for facetime connections to be peer-to-peer without having to route through a sever, so I don't see where a facetime connection would need a data center of any kind?
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Network traversal etc. This would tie into that rumor that FaceTime 'phones home' to Apple.
 
For years people have been wondering when Apple was going to begin bringing their content distribution in-house and should a lot of the burden Akamai has be paid to handle.

Heck, Apple can probably pay some schlub a couple bucks above minimum wage to work 24/7 in a cold dark cave and and undercut the cost of Akamai's labor. And we would probably get another Futurama episode out of it with the poorly paid zombie workers in Mother's data farm. 😛
 
I can think of a number of cool things Apple could do with the data center:

1: A Spotify-like service with a monthly/yearly fee that streams desired songs with no ads. If someone wants to play "Ride the Lightning" 50 times in a row, they can.

2: A cloud based backup service, similar to Mozy, Carbonite, or BackBlaze.

3: A Web app farm storing user data on the server side, similar to Google Docs.

4: Extensions to .me for companies to have their whole domains sitting on Apple's servers.

5: Cloud based apps that go with Logic or Aperture for vaulting/archiving of projects.
 
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