Jose wrote:
Interesting talk, but I disagree with most of you here. First of all I don't thing this will ever get that huge acceptance, because plenty stuff people today have on their machines is actually illegal mp3/movies/programs you name it, so they don't want to get caught. Secondly I don't think people would want to depend on a remote station completely, like someone has already said what if the server is down or they lose your data or there are data leaks ...
That said I think plenty people will use it, mostly for the convenience but the other option will be there, they'll probably use both and it's not like governments will force you to NOT have a powerfull computer at home:)
I agree. Piracy is what drives many people to buy computers in the first place: free music, free movies, free apps, free games. Email is less important to the gen y's as they text message on their mobiles. They are not mad hobbyists like we are, they might as well be buying a fridge. They have little regard for copyright on digital files or software: most treat it as a disposable commodity. I read that only 25% of installed software is legitimate. Are they gonna store their pirated files on an MS server?
People will use it just like they use gmail or yahoo mail as opposed to their isp email address: for doing stuff they don't really care much about.
