tablets and USB ports and Cloud
Do any of the tablets have a USB port ? and is cloud a on line place to store your stuff and do you have to use it ? Thanks in advance. Jay
Forum Discussion
What they are calling The Cloud is not just storage, it is a range of computing services, particularly at this marketing stage a place to synchronize multiple devices that you want to work the same way and have the same information.
Clouds are also for running applications, and some devices, notably the Chromebook, require that you use Google's cloud if you want to do anything, because applications do not download to, nor run on, the device.
Apple also applied this model to the iPhone originally, relented after the first year and allowed native applications, increasing device storage to accommodate them.
Adobe is currently trying to move some application suites to cloud computing, but for most of their applications you still have the option to install and run locally.
Commercial computing started out on the cloud, only it wasn't called that. Corporations hooked up terminals and input-output devices to servers run by companies like GE and IBM, but in the 1960s started buying their own. GE's Genie initiated consumer cloud computing to keep the machines busy and making money during off hours. It was followed by Compuserve and America Online, which did not arrive on the scene until after home computers, and was thus designed to work with a dedicated local application, not just a terminal.
Microsoft tried to take us back to that model with MSN, which was originally intended to run applications against client programs on PCs, a model largely rejected by corporate clients who preferred to control their own applications and data, and by consumers already hooked on buying software in boxes rather than paying per use.
We will see where this centralized server model goes, now that it has the hip name "Cloud."
Clouds are also for running applications, and some devices, notably the Chromebook, require that you use Google's cloud if you want to do anything, because applications do not download to, nor run on, the device.
Apple also applied this model to the iPhone originally, relented after the first year and allowed native applications, increasing device storage to accommodate them.
Adobe is currently trying to move some application suites to cloud computing, but for most of their applications you still have the option to install and run locally.
Commercial computing started out on the cloud, only it wasn't called that. Corporations hooked up terminals and input-output devices to servers run by companies like GE and IBM, but in the 1960s started buying their own. GE's Genie initiated consumer cloud computing to keep the machines busy and making money during off hours. It was followed by Compuserve and America Online, which did not arrive on the scene until after home computers, and was thus designed to work with a dedicated local application, not just a terminal.
Microsoft tried to take us back to that model with MSN, which was originally intended to run applications against client programs on PCs, a model largely rejected by corporate clients who preferred to control their own applications and data, and by consumers already hooked on buying software in boxes rather than paying per use.
We will see where this centralized server model goes, now that it has the hip name "Cloud."
