Comments on: Cloud Convergence; A Vision of the Perfect Cell Phone/Mobile Device http://francisshanahan.com/index.php/2009/cloud-convergence-a-vision-of-the-perfect-cell-phonemobile-device/ Thoughts on technology from a citizen scientist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Francis http://francisshanahan.com/index.php/2009/cloud-convergence-a-vision-of-the-perfect-cell-phonemobile-device/comment-page-1/#comment-44055 Francis Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:44:38 +0000 http://francisshanahan.com/www/?p=2273#comment-44055 Hi Joseph. Thanks for the comment. I wrote this back in 2009 and looking back turned out to be a pretty good guess. It's funny (to me) that it took Apple to put out their iCloud offering before people took notice. The biggest indicator of where things are going is Amazon's Kindle Fire. This thing is very cheap to the point of being free but all services are routed through the web. I'll write a more comprehensive blog about this in the coming weeks. Exciting times. Hi Joseph. Thanks for the comment. I wrote this back in 2009 and looking back turned out to be a pretty good guess. It’s funny (to me) that it took Apple to put out their iCloud offering before people took notice. The biggest indicator of where things are going is Amazon’s Kindle Fire. This thing is very cheap to the point of being free but all services are routed through the web. I’ll write a more comprehensive blog about this in the coming weeks. Exciting times.

]]> By: Joseph http://francisshanahan.com/index.php/2009/cloud-convergence-a-vision-of-the-perfect-cell-phonemobile-device/comment-page-1/#comment-43789 Joseph Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:41:08 +0000 http://francisshanahan.com/www/?p=2273#comment-43789 I would be interested to see what your opinion is now that Apple has pushed out iCloud. They have taken (as they do) technology which has been around for quite while and polished it off so that "it just works" - as they like to say. I'm interested in the effect of changing the way we behave towards and think about the computer - that is away from having a main computer with peripherals to simply having computing capability supported via cloud technologies. I would be interested to see what your opinion is now that Apple has pushed out iCloud. They have taken (as they do) technology which has been around for quite while and polished it off so that “it just works” – as they like to say.

I’m interested in the effect of changing the way we behave towards and think about the computer – that is away from having a main computer with peripherals to simply having computing capability supported via cloud technologies.

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