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More generally, Apple's dismissiveness of retrocomputing serves a convenient excuse for their atrocious lack of backwards compatibility, early abandonment of products and forced upgrades.
Yes.
For me, the "cloud" is were computer development took a sinister turn for the worst. I'm not surprised that a few powerful and rich companies want to convince the world that everyone's private data is safer, more secure, more private when moved from individual hard drives to the cloud. (Only that data that needs to be shared among a separated team, has any reason to be moved to a cloud).
What is frustrating and shocking, is the way most of the world seems to have bought into this fallacy. Smart phones have become the default data gatherers for every aspect of life (who are your friends, family, what are your assets, what do you and they look like, how predictable can you be, etc?) that, until recently, could remain anonymous and private.
If the world is ever again seduced by another Hitler or Stalin, what becomes of these giant databases? When technology becomes fashion, a consumer society becomes cattle.
OK, that's the end of my rant.
