I don’t like the Cloud idea at all. Maybe if we were all high on post-war optimism—and, with Donald Fagen’s “I.G.Y.”, could sing “What a beautiful world this will be / What a glorious time to be free”—we could be excited about it. Too much water under the bridge since then for us to “trust” technology.
Adobe took their products to the cloud as a subscription model. You sign up, pay a monthly fee and download the program to your hard drive. Updates are done in real time, as are verifications of your right to use the product. Bottom line is you end up paying a LOT more over time for something like Photoshop than you would the old way. I’m using Photoshop 6.0, so far behind I don’t even qualify for upgrades. I figure that someday I’ll buy a used copy of the last CS version prior to the cloud and it will seem like a quantum leap to me.
Or I may just say GOODBYE to the web and to computering! Anyone else feel this way?
Whatever happened to "They'll be Spandex Jackets, one for everyone?"
“Or I may just say GOODBYE to the web and to computering! Anyone else feel this way?”
As soon as I sell my company I will be moving someplace without internet access. It may have electricity.