The Almighty "Cloud"

[ABM]

Appears the cloud will be the way we share any and all data.

I just received this e-mail..

Dear, ABM...

We’ll soon be introducing a new and exciting feature to iCloud. It’s called iWork for iCloud and it’s a suite of apps — Pages, Numbers, and Keynote — that make it easy for anyone with an iCloud account to create and edit great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations right on the web.

We’d like to invite you to be one of the first to try it, so we’re giving you early access to the iWork for iCloud beta. All you have to do is sign in to iCloud on a Mac or a PC using the current version of Safari, Chrome, or Internet Explorer. Then just click on Pages, Numbers, or Keynote and you’re off.

We’re really proud of these apps and we’d appreciate your help in making them as great as they can possibly be. So we’d love to hear your feedback as you use them.

Sign in to iCloud.com to get started with iWork for iCloud today.

Sincerely,

The iWork Team

It'll be interesting so see where this next greatest concept ends up taking us....

Stay tuned.....................right?

 

[TripTango]

Is this a sneaky attempt to talk about heaven?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Is this a sneaky attempt to talk about heaven?

Apple calls it iHeaven.

 

[ABM]

Is this a sneaky attempt to talk about heaven?

Nah, I'm straight-up with that stuff. You should know me better than that by now.

 

[ABM]

Apple calls it iHeaven.

Psssst....Don't let Denny hear that.

 

[TripTango]

Nah, I'm straight-up with that stuff. You should know me better than that by now.

Of course I know. Just teasin.

 

[Denny Crane]

It's google docs done by Apple. I expect it's going to be very well done.

Since they wrote their OS' browser (Safari), and the WWW site hosting the apps, they can customize the user experience. Google has been doing this with Chrome already, but Google's UI is butt ugly.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Psssst....Don't let Denny hear that.

No one cares about iHeaven. It's iHeaven2 that is going to be the shit!

 

[ABM]

No one cares about iHeaven. It's iHeaven2 that is going to be the shit!

No worries here. I'm on virtual update status......forever.

 

[MARIS61]

The Cloud was produced at the "request" of US spy agencies, and is designed so the "targets" (All US Citizens) not only voluntarily hand over every detail of their lives to the government but actually organize and label it for them.

 

[Eastoff]

I find cloud sourcing technology very Big Brother.

 

[Denny Crane]

In the olden days, you would create a computer program on punched cards and submit them to the computer operator who'd run your program and put the resulting printout in your (physical) mailbox.

Then they came up with the idea of dumb serial terminals. They would talk to a central mainframe computer over an RS232 cable. The terminal simply showed the characters on the screen where and what the mainframe told it to.

Then they came up with the idea of personal computers. They shifted the work load from a centralized source (mainframe) to apps you store on your local hard disk and run from there. When they updated the word processor on the old mainframe, everyone got to use the new version. With the PCs, some people are still running windows XP and god knows what versions of the various software.

Along came google. In the process of crawling every WWW page on the Internet, they grew a network (cloud!) of computers that combined had so much RAM that a copy of every page on the internet could be in RAM in their cloud. That was a long time ago. They now have many times that computing capacity.

The cloud is a mainframe way of distributing software. Apple gets to update their software on their servers at 3AM and tomorrow you get to use the new software.

At least apple does its software updates mostly right. The app store app tells you that you have some locally installed software to update, and you click a button to install the latest and greatest. Unlike Windows where everything you download and install also installs a program that runs in the background checking for software updates for just the one program.