I always wondered why Apple studiously avoided providing a NAS-type media hub with server versioned iLife/iTunes suite etc. Looks like they are betting on Cloud-based services for consumers rather than attempting to "apple-ify" home networking....I think they're right...
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maybe in 10 years Apple will be right
A home media hub that acts as a cache for cloud services would be killer.
(The "master copy" of all your media is in the cloud, but a local "black box" caches a local copy so that access times are great, and excess bandwidth charges are minimal.)
A home media hub that acts as a cache for cloud services would be killer.
(The "master copy" of all your media is in the cloud, but a local "black box" caches a local copy so that access times are great, and excess bandwidth charges are minimal.)
I have some bad feelings about this
Like a lot of people, I have lost legitimately-purchased iTunes songs over the years, for various reasons. I lost a bunch when I had a hard drive crash about 6 years ago, before I diligently backed up my iTunes collections. I've also lost songs due my GF purchasing them through my account on her laptop, and not telling me about it so I can sync our libraries.
I am really, really hoping that this will allow me to finally get back all those songs I've lost. I am hoping that, when iCloud becomes available, each iCloud account (after setting it up) would be populated with the songs you've purchased over the years. That's not how it will work, apparently. That's how it SHOULD work, but Apple is pretty crafty/evil. They WANT you to have to re-purchase songs you've lost. They don't want this to turn into a way for you to get those songs back for free. So it will work as an extension to the Genius sidebar, scanning your iTunes library and only populating the iCloud account with songs you have in your library. Which will suck.
Like a lot of people, I have lost legitimately-purchased iTunes songs over the years, for various reasons. I lost a bunch when I had a hard drive crash about 6 years ago, before I diligently backed up my iTunes collections. I've also lost songs due my GF purchasing them through my account on her laptop, and not telling me about it so I can sync our libraries.
I am really, really hoping that this will allow me to finally get back all those songs I've lost. I am hoping that, when iCloud becomes available, each iCloud account (after setting it up) would be populated with the songs you've purchased over the years. That's not how it will work, apparently. That's how it SHOULD work, but Apple is pretty crafty/evil. They WANT you to have to re-purchase songs you've lost. They don't want this to turn into a way for you to get those songs back for free. So it will work as an extension to the Genius sidebar, scanning your iTunes library and only populating the iCloud account with songs you have in your library. Which will suck.