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[isthisthingon]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/198687/chrome_shows_apple_its_future.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl

Nothing new at all in this article but the picture of 2020 is interesting.  Everything is a mobile window viewing a more powerful cloud to supply most all user requirements. 

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Maybe I am slow, but I do not understand how istore for example is related to cloud computing
I could see where u have a portion of all you data stored on a central server of some sort, like all of your docs, or like a SVN code repository.
FB for iphone is a userapp which connects to FB in the same tradition of battlenet for warcraft etc.
For this to happen you will need a lot faster wireless networks for starters.
Who is going to pay for this

I am not saying cloud computing will not play an important part in the future.
But linking everything together seems to be a leap of faith .
Also they compare it to remote desktop.
Simple physics seem to make using remote desktop difficult.
The latency from 3G etc is huge. Unless u can figure out a way to make electrons travel faster

If everything was running on a cloud, then why would apple be investing in LLVM
Or then again it depends on what u define as cloud.
LLVM if u made a rpc module similar to what twisted python has would rock.

The steve jobs analogy of truck and car seems much better.

[isthisthingon]

>But linking everything together seems to be a leap of faith

Any assertion about 10 years from now is a complete leap of faith, except for the fact that it will be 10 years later

I believe the article is suggesting that, regardless of being right about it or not, that Apple is banking more on being the device in your hands while you access your various cloud spaces.  Google is obviously playing harder in the server/cloud arena and the Nexus One debacle encourages them to stay there.

So correct or not, their "analysis" concludes that we're all moving more towards mobile and when we need the horsepower we're moving more towards using a window into the cloud world than having it all in a traditional PC.  Again it's nothing new under the sun and basically the direction cloud computing is headed.  It's just that Apple has been rather quiet about cloud computing in general yet perhaps positioning themselves for prime adoption as more and more people just want a window to the horsepower, not the entire engine along with the portal to drive it