With the iPad, you have missed the point I was making.
I was using the "iPad like devices" - not the iPad per se - as an
example as to the way things may well ( are ) going forward.
Then we will have to disagree. There is a place for the Ipad and Ipadalikes
but I don't see it replacing PCs
You seem to be anti-Apple ( poor Steve Jobs ) ... :-)
Not at all. I admire his ability to stick a bit of coloured
plastic on something, quadruple the price and get away with it
The one thing he isn't is poor!
The Cloud is more than that - as the concept develops it will have
the potential to take away "owing" individual versions of software
on individual devices - like computers - or on network servers, etc.
Providers could just stop selling individual versions of software,
altogether. Or sell them only at quite high cost.
At same time as offering you a "free" service, through their own provision.
Which, then, would you choose ?
And you miss my point. It won't be free. You will be expected to pay for
Word and Excel and many others over and over again. They will charge you
an annual fee for using each prog
Microsoft tried to quietly introduce this a few years and had to
withdraw it in the
face of consumer resistance.
Computer software and hardware companies do things in their own
interest not yours
and the cloud under various names is something they've been trying to introduce
for years. Do you really trust Microsoft or Google to keep all your letters
rather than keeping them yourself? I don't think so
martinw
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