Cloud computing. You practically hear it every 47 seconds these days. It's everywhere, it's nowhere.
I am wondering what you guys think about Cloud computing, not just gaming but also in general (read: daily tasks). Will it replace every PC at your home? Non at all? At the very least reduce? Do you think it's nice for mobile devices but won't replace desktops?
There are certain things I simply don't like about cloud computing:
[A] Provider-bound content. In my opinion any service should allow me to switch to another provider without any drawback. I can switch internet provider, power provider, etc without any drawback but I can't switch from OnLive to another provider unless I want to lose all my games.
Business model - For now all those web-applications are free, so my question is: How are they planning to make a profit? I'm not exactly interested in a website full of advertising. Monthly subscription fee? Not exactly desirable.
[C] Security. I think that I'll always need atleast one computer at home, simply because I won't want to put certain data in an environment that's much more suspectable to data breaches because of its centralised approach. It's simply bound to get hit numerous times by its very nature. I mean, you would to login to your account which means you and others will be suspectable to keyloggers and other ways of hacking an account. They're not exactly impenetrable fortresses, Sony being a recent example.
With that said I do like the concept of just a single desktop that can be accessed from anywhere on any device. I think that if there were a company that would design a "Personal Cloud Desktop" which would allow me to access it from anywhere and stream/transfer my desktop, pictures, audio, video, games and applications to any device I would cetainly favour that option.
How about you?
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