And in a year from now, all these “cloud” services will all be doing the same thing in one form or another.
As I said, the “cloud” idea is nothing new. The only “twist” is you can have your entire 100GB (or whatever it is) available to you, which I’m sure is probably nowhere near what the average user has.
Why is it that when Apple comes out with this “revolutionary” stuff, the only people calling it that were already Apple zombies to begin with? Everyone else just sits back and laughs at you guys while saying “Yeah, that’s nice, but I don’t see what all the fuss is about”.
Sounds like a sickness.
Please show us WHO is providing this FREE easy-to-use integrated, transparent service across multiple devices to their customers already. And who is offering a subscription music system for the equivalent of $2 a month? Please, tell us. Once you've done that, then you can continue being snarky and insultingly calling people names like "Apple zombies" in violation of Jim Robinson's rules against attempting to instigate flame wars on FreeRepublic.
Yeah, most Android folks are laughing at the use of ‘revolutionary’. But, the Apple fanboys will believe it.
Your post is self-contradictory, downplaying Apple’s new offerings as old news, yet observing that everyone else will catch up in about a year. You deride the cloud as nothing new (ok, so it isn’t), and downplay the “twist” which changes the game and which others won’t catch up to for months if not years (Android isn’t trusted, Amazon told publishers to p!$$ off).
Buying a CD a month is hardly extravagant. Over 30 years, compressed to 256kbps, that’s around 265GB easy.
And as for sickness, which is more so: being happy that a shiny new leading-edge product has arrived, or passionately bashing it? So we like our toys; why do you feel compelled to insult them?
So now we've gone from "what's the big deal? All the cloud services already do this" to "a year from now ..." I wouldn't hold my breath. Ten years on, we're still waiting for the "iPod killer" (*cough* Zune *cough*).
As I said, the “cloud” idea is nothing new. The only “twist” is you can have your entire 100GB (or whatever it is) available to you, which I’m sure is probably nowhere near what the average user has.
Jobs said at the keynote that this isn't for most users. Heaven forfend, a company should offer a service for someone other than the average user.
Why is it that when Apple comes out with this “revolutionary” stuff, the only people calling it that were already Apple zombies to begin with?
Because you use a circular definition by which anyone impressed with Apple's services is an "Apple zombie."