no thanks. cloud computing. blimey, what is this 1996? soon you'll be talking about thin clients again, oops, i'm too slow, thats already gaining momentum with VMware/Sun/Microsoft/Intel... again... blade servers, hypervisors, hardware transparency and virtualization ... blah blah blah....
mobile 3G speeds are only just realiable enough to stream audio from my home machine to my phone/netbook/whatever.
streaming video while moving and cell hopping leaves a bit to be desired, it works, yes, but it works best if you are in one location.
plus, like farcebook, would you like someone else looking after your data? you may delete that dodgy photo from your account, but if its been there long enough for their backup/snapshot system to grab a backup of your account/data, its theirs for as long as they like.
and then, how about if their servers go down. sorry. you can't look at your photos, play your game, edit your spreadsheets, print your contracts, cos we can't be arsed to sort it out yet...
also, if i have to load call of duty 4 over broadband every time i want a game, i'll be having to organise games weeks in advance.
nope. what i want, and pretty much nearly have, is all my stuff stored at home, and access to it from where-ever i am. more heavyweight stuff that an internet connetion couldn't cope with in a few minutes, gets stuck on my laptop or USB key.
what i want is a fatter pipe to my house, where i have my stuff, that i look after, and no-one else can access.
