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On Thu, 12 May 2011, Roland Tarver wrote:
It all sounds lovely, but - everything in "the cloud" :-s ??? Really? Although I have no evidence or experience to prove it (except the recent amazon outage) I just don't have a good gut "feeling" about all my data (or mums, etc) in "the cloud"? Do you? Do others?
Lots of news buzzing about on this recently - the Chrome Book, etc. the Register had an article on it some time back when they got the beta
version (Cr-48) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/14/google_chrome_os_cr_48/ and reading today, http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/05/13/the_chromebook_proposition/it seems that there is now a local file-manager built into the OS - and that means local (or USB, etc.) storage. So it does look like it's going to be possible to get files out of the remote storage "cloud" and keep them locally - for backup, etc.
Still doesnn't address the need for the application though - if that's hosted remotely, then you might have your data, but nothing to process it with! Keeping a local cache of application might work though, who knows!
I won't be rushing out to buy one, but have they released the software yet to allow people to install it on their own devices? It was something I did look into some time back (over a year), but never really put much effort into it. (Or is it just android with the chrome browser and a few local apps :)
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