[PugetSoundSoldier]

More cloud-based services, especially full cloud-based backup, would go a long way toward making the iDevices stand alone, but Apple’s model is still to have them as a companion for the computer, preferably a Mac.

I think that's more because of Apple's insistence to use iTunes, than their willful decision to make typical PCs the foundation of their company.

I bet one of the big uses for that data center is for a way to do iTunes on the cloud, thereby eliminating the need to tether to a regular PC.

With Apple, as dayglored hints at, thin is in. Not just physical size, but thin-client type devices.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

With Apple, as dayglored hints at, thin is in. Not just physical size, but thin-client type devices.

That is a natural for Apple. Jobs is thin.

:-)