SteveJ-restore-test

Summary : "last to market" worked as a strategy in the past for Microsoft. But "everything is a PC" is probably false and theyll be sidelined in the new Mobile Devices world. A response from a friend, this page by John Gruber on Daring Firebal l, is worth reading. Gruber points out that Apple and Microsoft have radically different marketing strategies. Apple shows The Real Deal when it's ready, Microsoft pre-announces a long way out. Neither is "better" in itself, they're just different. I'm wondering if Microsoft's "Windows 8" is too little, too late. Yep, they've finally got an Apps Store, Cloud Storage and are trying to engage App Developers. With Smartphones, people buy Apps, not O/S features. This works against Microsoft. Win-7 didn't take off, why should this latest attempt? Remember that launch parade by MS with a coffin, 'cause they were going to bury the iPhone... How did that go for them? If I was a rusted-on...

Will Apple add a torrent like ability to its iCloud offering?? iCloud is a remote filesystem with a lot of metadata and does 4 things: provides "second copy of my precious data" (for files I've generated) allows synchronisation of those files across the multiple devices/platforms a user connects. This is the aspect Apple 'sells': email, contact and calendar sync and restore/recover. mediates the enforcement of copyright and content distribution does Internet-Scale data de-duplication. By data volume, the Internet is a 'Viewing Platform'. 1 upload == zillions downloads [write once, download ~infinite] Apple could create an Internet-Scale "Content Delivery Network" with iCloud if ran a peer-peer network, something like the hugely successful bit-torrent protocol/service. Because you've got authorised content and validated entities/logins in a vendor controlled environment, there isn't a direct copyright or leakage problem, just the ever-p...