TheKnowlege
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really not a fan of everything being in the cloud..
"Customers who purchased a PlayPass, which was essentially buying a game that's stored in the cloud, will not see a refund. These games will no longer be available after April 30, 2015."
Why would you even want to be using 65 year old tech?how sure can you be that your dropcam (assuming the hardware works), will still have its cloud services 65+ years from now? )
For email, those are often services which are free to use, and require no direct purchase. I don't really mind that, but what I hate is spending money on a device that is locked to a specific external server where my device is useless without their servers. That is why I argued against the dropcam and other similar products. You pay a high upfront cost, and get poor value ($10 a month just to record 10 days of footage full of compression artifacts).
My main argument for the cloud, is to make products cloud enhanced and not cloud reliant.
For example some IP cameras can be cloud enhanced by allowing local access to the video, thus if a user has their own IP cam DVR server up, then they can directly record from the camera, thus if the company that made it, went out of business, then your product will still work find as long as you choose to use it. Thus the user gets the best of both worlds.
On the other hand, with cloud reliance, you gain all of the additional points of failure that comes with relying on an external server that you do not control. Furthermore, you are taking a gamble on the service staying up for a long as you want to use it.
If the owner of adobe decided that running a cartel was more profitable than running the adobe CC servers, would that mean that photoshop is no longer a good program?
If dropcam went out of business today, would that mean that the video quality that it offers is 100% useless to all people who have it and thus shouldn't even think about using a camera what that level of video quality?
With the cloud, you give up control, you also put your continued use at the mercy of the company.
If you purchased a dropcam today, and 3 months later, they decided to increase the fee for recording from $10 a month, to $50 a month for the same 10 days; what if they did this in addition to removing all free access, thus you have to pay a monthly fee in order to even view your camera? Would you pay, or would you accept having a $200 paperweight?
The issues surrounding cloud, are ones of longevity. If I buy a product, what guarantee that the service costs will not suddenly go up, what guarantee is there that the company will not go out of business while I still want to use the product that I paid good money for?
What if I use a paid cloud service for my business, and my business comes to rely on it, what is stopping the company from deciding that because we are now reliant on their service that we will be more willing to accept an unnecessary price hike?
Think of it like how some mechanic shops function. A repair that would usually cost $200, may become $400+ if they feel that you are desperate for that repair.
If a company feels that your investments are not secure without them, then that is an opening for them to take advantage. Their bargaining chip is that they can pretty much devalue your investment at the drop of a hat.
With cloud enhanced, the customer retains their consumer powers, and ends up with a product that will have a far greater chance at lasting them for as long as they would want to ever use the product.
PS, I have an old analog multimeter from the 50's that still works decades after the company went out of business, if it were a cloud reliant multimeter, then it would have failed the moment the company went out of business. While I don't use it, if I wanted to, I could dig it out of where i stored it in the basement and it will still work.
(how sure can you be that your dropcam (assuming the hardware works), will still have its cloud services 65+ years from now? )
If you move your active directory services to the cloud, and the company that managed it suddenly went out of business. How fast could you have your active directory services back up and running?
I wouldn't, but it is impossible to give an exact number of years, and the issue is that will the number of years you ultimately choose be the same or less than the number of years they (the cloud service) choose?Why would you even want to be using 65 year old tech?
what'll you do if Google buys Microsoft?
Not infeasible. Shareholder pressure.
what'll you do if Google buys Microsoft?
Not infeasible. Shareholder pressure.
Since when did the US SEC care diddly squat about anti-trust? Was it 1938?Alphabet, owning both Google and Microsoft, running both of them in parallel? That'd be a scary thought (one that would never fly with the SEC or any other regulatory body wanting to prevent any monopolistic situation).
Corporate giants that eat up each other in the IT world don't squash products and services...they maintain them.
As someone who has worked on a few high profile M&A cases, I can say this is definitely not always true.
Agree. I've been on a few "due diligence tech committe" reviews for biggies.As someone who has worked on a few high profile M&A cases, I can say this is definitely not always true.
I've also seen the acquiring-company's CEO let his ego run amok and install his minions in newco, and they slash and burn without understanding much.
As someone who has worked on a few high profile M&A cases, I can say this is definitely not always true.
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