New Time Capsules Rather Than Apple's Servers to Act as Hub for iCloud Data Syncing?

[deannnnn]

Hard for them? They're not even expanding the FiOS network anymore. Whoever has it is a lucky bastard.

Is that true? I haven't heard that. Can you link me to an article?

I assumed that it was difficult for them to bring their FiOS lines into older NYC apartment buildings because the owners of the buildings don't want anything done even if the residents do.

 

[lucabrasi]

Ahhhh I want FiOS.

I get just under 1 Mbps up with Time Warner Cable in my NYC apartment, which is located immediately next to a Verizon building. I can get Verizon DSL (no thanks) but FiOS isn't available. I guess it's hard for them to put it into older apartment buildings. The 16 Mbps down or whatever it is I get with TWC is okay, but still.

Look into time warner wideband. It's a bit pricey, but for $100/mo all in you get 50 Mbps down / 5 Mbps up. I've had it for over a year now, and the speeds are consistent.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/nynj/learn/hso/wideband-internet/

 

[PCClone]

I just want to be able to transfer movies/music/etc to my Apple TV or iPhone/iPad/iPod without the damn computer being on.

Sell one of your devices and then you can pay the electric bill.

 

[Žalgiris]

I'd really prefer it to be Apple's variation of this: http://www.pogoplug.com/, except Apple easy, reliable etc. That way, each user can add whatever storage they need and it's easy to replace a drive when it dies. I don't expect this (I expect Apple to arbitrarily decide how much hard drive storage we need and rigidly build it in), but it sure would be nice to allow the storage to scale per the needs of the user.

Sadly there is almost no chance Apple is doing something like this.

 

[jaw04005]

The HDD in a TC is easily user-replaceable if you know how to use a screwdriver.

Sure, if you want to void your warranty by prying off the glued rubber backing. I was talking more like how the new Mac mini allows you to swap your RAM.

 

[kevin2i]

No, TC is not iCloud.

An updated Time Capsule is not the "iCloud." There may be some integration, but TC cannot be the heart of the cloud.

Exhibit A:

This is iCloud.

 

[bruinsrme]

I just want to be able to transfer movies/music/etc to my Apple TV or iPhone/iPad/iPod without the damn computer being on.

This.

I would even be interested in being able to have an iTunes nas attached to the TC.

Will the NC facility be one of a kind?

 

[Žalgiris]

Look into time warner wideband. It's a bit pricey, but for $100/mo all in you get 50 Mbps down / 5 Mbps up. I've had it for over a year now, and the speeds are consistent.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/nynj/learn/hso/wideband-internet/

100 for 50 Mbps? This is a rape in a public place in the middle of the day.

 

[gibjer]

Humm ....

So I wonder if this is how they'll implement a "file system" for iOS devices, makes perfect sense when you think about it. Especially if future air laptops go iOS instead of the standard OS.

 

[rufwork]

Unless you can transparently SSH in from anywhere and unless they integrate with TV, that's a hard fail.

 

[deannnnn]

Look into time warner wideband. It's a bit pricey, but for $100/mo all in you get 50 Mbps down / 5 Mbps up. I've had it for over a year now, and the speeds are consistent.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/nynj/learn/hso/wideband-internet/

Yeah I actually have looked into that. $100/month is too much for me though. I've got the triple play now so it's $100/month for tv, internet, and phone. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

 

[Undecided]

I love watching old Tech Presentations, something about them just fascinates me.

I agree, though the something is probably Steve Jobs. (The dating game thing with the original Mac is cringe-worthy, though.)

Xander Soren, who demonstrated Garageband on the iPad earlier this year, is good too.

 

[PCClone]

Not a chance you have to sell your sole for an extra USB port on anything apple!

It will have a 30pin dock connector maybe and a butched non standard Sata drive screwed in with an inch of it's life!

I have heard of people selling their soul, but if I just have to sell a sole, that would be cheap. I have several old shoes around.

 

[ldellx3]

so does this mean there is no chance lion will be available tomorrow?

 

[makingdots]

so does this mean there is no chance lion will be available tomorrow?

yep no, because apple devs are still in WWDC, in case there are major bugs or compatibility issues, who will fix those? so most likely next week will be the earliest

 

[shandyman]

An updated Time Capsule is not the "iCloud." There may be some integration, but TC cannot be the heart of the cloud.

Exhibit A:

Image

This is iCloud.

actually that's a building, not a cloud

 

[dstranathan]

Now we finally know what that new building in North Carolina is:


An Airport Base Station & Time Capsule manufacturing plant!

 

[OllyW]

so does this mean there is no chance lion will be available tomorrow?

Latest rumour is that Lion will be released on 14th June.

 

[KnightWRX]

Well done Apple!!!!!!

You have invented the NAS device!!!!!!

I know you're being sarcastic, but the NAS has been far from "it just works" in the household. Synology, QNAP, Drobo, HP Media Server, D-link, Linksys all already have solutions, but Apple could really make some great in-roads in this market.

I'm now in the "build your own" camp (I've just bought a new "server", a triple core AMD machine with 16GB RAM that will replace my aging Pentium II with some 450MB something mismatched SDRAM modules) and I'll probably try running it off the NetApp simulator for kicks and giggles (does NFS and CIFS, though I'd wish for some AFP which I use off my QNAP for now) with a RAID-5, 4 2 TB drive array.

However, just because I do this for a living and know the ins and outs of this doesn't mean it's open to everyone. And seriously, with the amount of people I see on here that constantly want more storage in their laptops of all things, I can see how a NAS type device with Apple's touch could make very great in-roads. Why upgrade your laptop storage ? Put it out on your home network so that all your household's computer can use it and share the data seamlessly. Don't carry around your data either, so that you don't lose it if you lose the laptop.

Centralized home storage is great. I'm more excited for this type of thing than some Internet based solution.

Latest rumour is that Lion will be released on 14th June.

That would mean Apple is shipping early then, since they said Summer 2011 and June 14th is Spring 2011.

An updated Time Capsule is not the "iCloud." There may be some integration, but TC cannot be the heart of the cloud.

Exhibit A:

Image

This is iCloud.

It's funny how this thing keeps coming back. We've been discussing this data center for what ? 2 years now ? You think the battle station isn't already fully operational my young rebel friend ? (oh god no, I just didn't say something that geeky).

If I were Apple and had invested tons of cash into that thing, you can be sure it would already be serving up stuff. That data center, while it may ALSO serve up stuff for the MobileMe revamp called iCloud, is probably also already working and serving you stuff for other Apple online-services like the App Store, the apple Store on the web, many of their websites if not also their internal corporate services (either as a primary or secondary site for database clusters/internal app load balancers and stuff like that).

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

100 for 50 Mbps? This is a rape in a public place in the middle of the day.

It's also the future as the owners of the broadband pipes continue to consolidate down to duopolies & monopolies. Along with higher speeds at "rape" pricing, expect the tiers to come tumbling down (to lower levels for wired broadband) all because of "due to increasing demand of broadband use." They'll choose the high profitability of leveraging price over the cost-demanding infrastructure buildout to try to keep pace with demand, then just leave those high prices in place should bandwidth supply ever catch up with bandwidth demand.

This is the #1 flaw in the dream of everything being stored in some distant cloud- the middlemen love your dream because of how profitable it will be... not for Apple, but for the owners of links between you and the NC iCloud.

 

[Dcuellar]

100 for 50 Mbps? This is a rape in a public place in the middle of the day.

Where I live Brighthouse offers 40Mbps for residential. Basically it costs an extra 30 bucks to go from the original 10Mbps to 40Mbps.

 

[ldellx3]

Latest rumour is that Lion will be released on 14th June.

just saw that but whatd you guys think. i plan to buy my new macbook pro next weekend but i want lion. if i buy the macbook pro do you think theyd give me lion for free or discounted because i would have just gotten it? also what is the price of the os. i definitely cant wait till september if thats what theyre planning

 

[shandyman]

That would mean Apple is shipping early then, since they said Summer 2011 and June 14th is Spring 2011.

actually most people consider June to be the summer. form june til august.... then september is autumn....

 

[*LTD*]

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It might be best to wait until Monday for confirmation of this rumour before everyone jumps to conclusions.

 

[gnasher729]

Unless you can transparently SSH in from anywhere and unless they integrate with TV, that's a hard fail.

What percentage of Apple's customer base do you think is interested in "transparently SSH"?