It might be huge but it's all more than a bit scary coming from Google. Also I question the adoption rate of something like this. All my stuff in the cloud == EVIL as far I'm concerned.
music my family pictures my email, contacts and calendar work files
If you imagine a tablet/netbook with GoogleOS, I'm still scared to death of losing the network. There is some talk of offline storage, but the details are super-fuzzy.
On a plane: where is my music or my videos? At my grandparents' place, where Interent is still not quite reliable In the middle of visiting Death Valley
How is storing data in a certain place EVIL?
Second, you can encrypt things in the cloud
For most people, this is more likely to happen to their local pc!
"This is why the US keeps uber-top secret stuff disconnected from the internet."
Are you suggesting that people not connect their computer to the internet? Otherwise, I have no idea what point you are making.
No. I'm saying that being connected to the internet has inherent risks. Being in the internet 24/7 like the cloud would obviously have as much, or more, risks.
>For most people, this is more likely to happen to their local pc!
Statistically speaking, maybe. But we all think that we can keep our data and stuff safer than other people can. At least people have control over something on their computers. Plus, by putting our data in more places, we increase the risk of it being stolen. You will probably already have a local copy. Keeping it in the cloud just adds another point of failure.