Apple's foray into the "service/rental economy"

On 2014.06.02, 19:21 , RichA wrote:
Following in the footsteps of the odious Adobe, is Apple.
"You won't have to pay a fee until you storage space exceeds 5 gigabytes!" Is that a lot for some??

No. I have a 1 TB system disk and 10 TB of external storage. Very
little of that needs to be in the cloud at any given time.

If I needed to I could set up a cheap enough server here and have it
available to me anywhere in the world with any or all of that 10 TB
available to me or to whoever I wanted to share all or parts of it with.

Yahoo give people 1 TB of flickr and e-mail storage for free - and the
limit of that in the industry will only go one way over time.

I use Dropbox as well for stuff I need access to.

And in fact one could always stuff data (up to 5 GB) onto ones Apple
iCloud account for retrieval anywhere with a simple trick. I tested
that out for S&G but I haven't used it.

The problem that is looming is that appliances you get will be
integrated via the cloud and not via servers in your own home. This is
the part I don't like (case in point: security cameras that upload the
video to a server for you to watch via a web app ("so you can see it
from anywhere"). Not only do you pay for the bandwidth, but you have to
pay for server retention. Really silly ass stupid. But all those co's
are out there setting up their tolls - and that includes dear old Apple.
Caveat Emptor. (There are of course security solutions that get the
feed directly from your security system with no need for a server
solution)).

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