When Apps Meet Cloud Storage: Tectonic Shift Ahead

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24 points·brettcvz··6 comments

Not shocked by the self-promotion Dass has here, considering where his interests are, but his point is ultimately a good one.

I think Filepicker is neat software, but can't wait for a more open solution like Web Intents to mature.

I don't know many SLR photo shooters who store their RAW files in the cloud. They're too big, and you can't upload them to flickr anyways. Video is even bigger. For people creating content using images or video, cloud storage will have to wait for Google Fiber for all.

This is the most blatant piece of self promotion, I can't believe Wired posted this.

Reading this is like someone arguing, the world is going mobile. Yea brilliant observation.

It's posted under the section "Contributor Content" which is a fancy way of saying "PAID ADVERTISING".

The Death of Local Storage is near? Really?

I would rather consolidate my data using personal cloud solutions like Tonido rather than spreading my personal data across multiple cloud storage services.

"I would rather consolidate my data using personal cloud solutions like Tonido rather than spreading my personal data across multiple cloud storage services."

You see what you just said? You said a perfectly legitimate alternative that most tech-savvy people (i.e. most of this site's userbase) will understand. That ditzy girl you hit on last week at the bar, some weird fruity drink in one hand, iPhone in the other? She wouldn't understand. She does, however, understand using her Dropbox to store all her photos from Instagram at the push of a button on Instagram's website...or some other possibility, I don't know.

I'll never have the cloud as my be-all end-all backup for media and the like but your average moron who dabbles in ten different applications' "social networks" will eat it up.

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