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New Time Capsules Rather Than Apple's Servers to Act as Hub for iCloud Data Syncing?
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I hope this rumor is true. I'd find it really compelling to buy a 2TB Time Capsule and have it sync with iCloud (for disaster recovery and for quick access from other devices accessing the iCloud away from my home network).
Basically, if the Time Capsule became the server that all my devices/computers sync with (both ways) and the hard drive was mirrored to iCloud, this would be fantastic.
I'd certainly pay a $100 a year and buy a Time Capsule for this. I already use Carbonite for disaster recover and I pay something like $5 a month for that service (which I could drop with such an iCloud).
Basically, if the Time Capsule became the server that all my devices/computers sync with (both ways) and the hard drive was mirrored to iCloud, this would be fantastic.
I'd certainly pay a $100 a year and buy a Time Capsule for this. I already use Carbonite for disaster recover and I pay something like $5 a month for that service (which I could drop with such an iCloud).
I'd be happy even if all they did was make a TC or AE+disk act as an itunes server for apple tv and in-house streaming to i-devices. Silly I have to keep my mac on just for that.
Yes, I saw the website and that's a streaming app where your computer have to be on 24/7. I already have similar app doing that for me. But, by "entire iTunes library" is like moving everything to the cloud (like backup everything, files and stuff). And that's what I'm referring to when I say it's too costly to do. That will be nice, but it's the future of cloud computing. Google's chromebook is something like that, but that's just the beginning...
Yes, I saw the website and that's a streaming app where your computer have to be on 24/7. I already have similar app doing that for me. But, by "entire iTunes library" is like moving everything to the cloud (like backup everything, files and stuff). And that's what I'm referring to when I say it's too costly to do. That will be nice, but it's the future of cloud computing. Google's chromebook is something like that, but that's just the beginning...
Try Spotify, it's brilliant, streaming online if you want, or can store on the devices, any song you want, don't need computer on and it can mirror your entire itunes library
There is something major missing in this whole iCloud puzzle. At the moment, from the gleaned fragments of misinformation, it seems like an expensive fifth wheel. The possibility of Time Machine being a server for ATV just diminishes iCloud's usefulness. iCloud would have been much more useful 2 years ago, if the world was covered by some kind of wireless network.
Something will be revealed tomorrow to make this stuff seem plausible. Or else it will be a load of junk. Can't imagine the iCloud application being so useless and yet so desperately pursued by Apple.
Something will be revealed tomorrow to make this stuff seem plausible. Or else it will be a load of junk. Can't imagine the iCloud application being so useless and yet so desperately pursued by Apple.
Geez... if you watch that video Steve actually refers to "Rhapsody on intel". Rhapsody was basically Mac OS X Server version 1.0, the pre-cursor to Mac OS X, which was released to developers on the PowerPC. Looking back, this was a clue that Apple had kept the code portable; making the PowerPC-to-Intel transition possible many years later in 2006/7.
Sounds like a WIN! for Apple, if you ask me.
When you consider the necessity to have a computer to backup the iPad and iPhone, Apple is underselling these products. There's a big market out there of people who would be happy with just an iPad and don't want or need a full-blown computer.
Sell these people an inexpensive Time Capsule that wirelessly backups their iPads and iPhones, and you just expanded your market.
Yep it's brilliant, have a premium account, being able to have any new music (with only having to pay a tenner a month) the minute it's available it very nice. It needs updating badly though, the folder system is terrible, making it unwieldily to nav your music if you have tons of stuff...
yea it could do with a little work, but it's a good standard for apple to aim for.
I have no interest in TC syncing to cloud services, but I wouldn't mind replacing my first gen 500GB TC with something bigger. Only Apple devices that I own are iPhone, an iPod and the TC (maybe an iPad in the future). I use custom scripts to backup my PC and laptop. As long as a new TC retains basic file server functionality, which I am sure it will, I will probably get one when it is released. I do like the idea of being able to use the iPhone directly with the TC though. Plus there have been some nice features added to the TC since the model I have.
So...Apple is going to charge you $25 a year or make you watch advertising to serve your own music off your own Airport Extreme???
Agree. I started to watch expecting to fast forward to the part about Steve's network vision but ended up watching the whole thing. It's amazing to see how open he was in responding to audience members, including the antagonistic one who asked about Java and OpenDoc and concluded by asking what Steve had been doing for the last seven years. It was also refreshing to see Steve say that there's stuff he knows nothing about.
Anyone who's interested in the history of Apple and Steve's leadership of the company should take a look.
Yes I want all of this and I HATE having to have my MacBook Pro on all the time!!!
Would I want these features? Yes! But if a Time Capsule is required that would FOR SURE hurt adoption in a HUGE way!!!
Ya they better lower the prices. I shelled out freakin' $500.00 for my Time Capsule and I do NOT want to do that again, nor was I planning on doing that again for quite some time!
I love that the vast majority of responses in this thread are people slagging off Apple for a product they haven't even introduced yet. It's amazing how some people can already "know" exactly what Apple's plans are before they've done them and then suggest ways to improve these non-existent plans!!
It's funny watching steve in that video as he's describing almost exactly the new google chrome os laptops just coming out.
He's saying how he goes to any computer, logs in and over the network he has access to his home directory stored on the server, even about taking the hard disk out and just having a screen and keyboard only on the device.
Funny huh?
Google are making just that and being moaned at for doing so, but apple never has.
He's saying how he goes to any computer, logs in and over the network he has access to his home directory stored on the server, even about taking the hard disk out and just having a screen and keyboard only on the device.
Funny huh?
Google are making just that and being moaned at for doing so, but apple never has.
I love that the vast majority of responses in this thread are people slagging off Apple for a product they haven't even introduced yet. It's amazing how some people can already "know" exactly what Apple's plans are before they've done them and then suggest ways to improve these non-existent plans!!
You're missing the face that it is an 'if' for each scenario case. They can't all be true.
This already exists...
Access your drive over the Internet.
Say youre traveling and you need a file on your Time Capsule back at home. If youre a MobileMe member using a Mac with Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, no problem.2 You can access all the files on your Time Capsule drive over the Internet. Simply register your Time Capsule with your MobileMe account, and its drive appears in the Finder sidebar of your Mac just like any other attached drive. Its like having your own personal file server wherever you go.
Access your drive over the Internet.
Say youre traveling and you need a file on your Time Capsule back at home. If youre a MobileMe member using a Mac with Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, no problem.2 You can access all the files on your Time Capsule drive over the Internet. Simply register your Time Capsule with your MobileMe account, and its drive appears in the Finder sidebar of your Mac just like any other attached drive. Its like having your own personal file server wherever you go.
Fair point.
I just don't see how so many people can be so negative about something that doesn't exist!!
