Is it possible to work 100% "In the Cloud"?

Is it possible to work 100% "In the Cloud?"

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • No

    Votes: 12 54.5%
  • Total voters
    22
FromUndaCheese

FromUndaCheese

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In light of Google's recent announcement of 100% cloud based laptops, is it really possible to work in the cloud 100%, particularly in our business? It seems like there aren't enough webapps to be able to replace the apps on a Macbook Pro like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Final Cut, etc. What are your thoughts about Chrome OS?

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oh yeah and the cloud thing, yeah photoshop and shit would make it hard but for average users yes, and for all users, it's getting there
 
photographers, graphic artists, motion graphics professionals, audio professionals, and most coders will tell you absolutely not. Grammas and teenage kids can, certainly. All they need is email, facebook, and porn.
 
For day to day, average computer use, yes it is capable of everything you need. For this business, depending on what you do, you'll need a desktop/mac/laptop
 
I cant see it being capable of running this type of business on. I can always use it for redtube streaming though!
 
dchuk said:
photographers, graphic artists, motion graphics professionals, audio professionals, and most coders will tell you absolutely not. Grammas and teenage kids can, certainly. All they need is email, facebook, and porn.
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I generally agree with this statement. I think it's possible, but unpractical, except for ordinary users.
 
There is a web app for everything these days, even photoshop. Storage is up there, communications are all up there, many apps are getting better than what we had before as PC software. (like office, for instance.)

Most of what we do CAN be done online, so I'm going to say YES, cloud apps all the way baby, even on just an iPad.

It's only when you WANT some desktop software that you could find a replacement for online that stops you. We all have our favorite software suites and for instance if you use Micro Niche Finder to search for your keywords, the system you've built around that may be time consuming to replace.

But Wordstream, a cloud app, might be better for you in the long run if you can learn a new system.
 
TheKey said:
Why anybody would entrust their data to the cloud is beyond me. :2twocents:
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This. Feel very uncomfortable with this concept. I'll keep my files on my own fucking hard drive thanks. Or encrypted on a VPS if I really need shit online (the "Google cloud" don't encrypt your shit).

True baller's solution would be your own Assange-esque datacenter that you can control virtually from anywhere. Of course everything would be encrypted, and so would the connection.
 
What happens if some hacker group fucks with google like they did to Playstation, then your whole business is down for weeks
 
Hi, my name is marketing. I make up terms to do with irrelevant technologies to get the majority of the population thinking they are better then the jones'.
 
csnreyes said:
What happens if some hacker group fucks with google like they did to Playstation, then your whole business is down for weeks
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They wouldn't dare do that. If anonymous screwed with Google, Google would just pull up their individual search history for the past 6 months and email it to their parents and schoolfriends.
 
If you count a Windows server as a part of the cloud then yes.

I'm starting to move a lot of my stuff to a Windows dedicated server so that I can RDP into it from wherever I want.
 
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