To Be Or Not To Be A Cloud Citizen

Grazed from GuruFocus. Author: Editorial Staff.

The recent Apple (AAPL) iCloud accident has raised a lot of storm not only against Apple as the service provider but against the whole cloud system. Today on every media and web portal, people have voiced their concerns and anger against what happened on the iCloud and how they are now shying away from putting their data on the cloud. People have gone to the extent of terming the cloud as a big technical bubble that has now burst, and it’s time to lay the cloud under its tombstone.

This reminds me of the first massive motor car accident dating back to somewhere between 1908 when Henry Ford rolled out the first motor car, and 1970 when seatbelts came into existence. Henry Ford rolled out Model T cars from his assembly line in 1908; until then there hadn’t been any automobile fatality in nearly 40 years prior to that – not since Mary Ward was run over by a steam-powered car in Ireland in 1869…

But with modern production, engineering improvements, better roads and more cars on them, automobile safety became a growing concern…

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