Heh. Too bad Icloud is MS Azure . lol
http://apple-beta.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-icloud-runs-on-microsoft-azure
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Heh. Too bad Icloud is MS Azure . lol
http://apple-beta.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-icloud-runs-on-microsoft-azure
With this announcement, I wonder if Dropbox is going to do something with their storage/pricing. I know they got a little better the past few months but with Apple and MSFT offering 200GB at 3.99 per month, I wonder how this will affect Dropbox.
With iCloud Disk coming with iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, I have no need for Dropbox anymore.
With iCloud Disk coming with iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, I have no need for Dropbox anymore.
iCloud has issues in one specific case (CoreData records sync) which will be fully solved in iOS 8 and which is not essential to the majority of apps - not to mention that this is the case that none of the competing clouds even tried to address, because it is so difficult.
Limited. Sure. But it does everything I want except storage which will come out for iOS 8/OS X 10.10 with iCloud Drive.
And it does work, for me, since Day 1.
Some parts are priced low enough for consumer use. I pay about $5/month for hosted Exchange (1 user) for my personal domain. I get full access to the back end via web browser and PowerShell and...yes, it just works. I never have a problem with it (about 2 years now). For me, it's well worth the price.
Yes, and they will go where the demand is. Since I want them to make apps, they will make it. Even if its a pain in the butt to do so because me and a few million users generate income for them. And income is their bread and butter.
I have close to a Terabyte of backed up data through CrashPlan's online backup system. If all of my computers were to burst into flames and explode today and my house burn down and my city be flooded and my state be consumed by a swarm of locusts, I will still have access to my kid's precious baby photos and all of our important documents.
iCloud
If In my opinion for now 5GB free storage for iCloud for 1 device is sufficient unless they open up the video support to be able to make a backup over the cloud. What kills me is if I start having more than 1 device and it's only sync to 1 account then 5GB is not enough. Apple should make every device attach to your account including desktop and laptop and iOS's device should get a 5GB FREE.
If In my opinion for now 5GB free storage for iCloud for 1 device is sufficient unless they open up the video support to be able to make a backup over the cloud. What kills me is if I start having more than 1 device and it's only sync to 1 account then 5GB is not enough. Apple should make every device attach to your account including desktop and laptop and iOS's device should get a 5GB FREE.
You do realize that the files are stored locally too. So the files do take up a physical location (and space) on your laptop.
Not everyone streams. I have Netflix and Hulu, but they don't have everything I want to watch. I have a lot of digital moves and I back them up to Crashplan along with pictures (wedding photos with that) and my digital music. Like locus76 said, my house burns down, power surge, or anything, I'll have all my data still. Your local drive at your house is useless if anything of that happens. You said you hard drive is connected to your network, again useless if you get a big enough power surge.
My music and movies can be replaced (most of it), but I really don't want to spend all that time ripping my CD's and DVD's again.
For the price of Crashplan, I think it's worth it. Very cheap if you pay 4 years in advance too.
We all think it won't happen to us, and it most likely won't, but my parents house was destroyed in a fire caused by an electrical fault in 2010. So like you, I don't take any chances now. The great thing about digital is how easy it is to have an offsite copy.
If you have the Dropbox client on your laptop, your Dropbox folders are stored physically on your laptop unless you turn syncing off for said folders via the Selective Sync feature.
EDIT: Nevermind. . .I'm far from the first person to make this exact same statement.
Truth be told, any and all cloud services have "privacy issues" to some degree. We can play the Dropbox/Google/Microsoft/even Apple is evil card all day long, but it's *still* your data being stored on external servers that you, as a user, have no control over. The only real way to largely mitigate this is to run your own spin of a cloud, such as with ownCloud. I understand that not everybody wants to run their own server, but truth be told ownCloud has gotten so easy in recent times that it's beginning to make more sense, especially with users with no IT background beginning to (finally) take backups more seriously by utilizing some sort of backup server/NAS utility on their LAN. If nothing else, it's at least worth entertaining.
Ah! I didn't quite take that from what you wrote - thank you for the clarification.