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Steve Jobs describes iCloud – in 1997 (with video)
Saturday, September 24, 2011
“Steve Jobs got a lot off his chest in his Q&A session with developers at WWDC 1997 — the first after he returned to Apple from his years in the desert at NeXT,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“What is perhaps most relevant today, a week or so before Apple is expected to launch iCloud, is the part where Jobs describes his vision for what is now known as cloud computing,” P.E.D. reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Jobs’ closing words read like an iCloud ad: “I can’t communicate to you how awesome this is, unless you use it. And what you would decide in a day or two is that carrying around these non-connected computers, or computers with tons of state in them, tons of data and state in them, is Byzantine by comparison.”
Steve Jobs describes iCloud – in 1997 (with video)
Saturday, September 24, 2011
“Steve Jobs got a lot off his chest in his Q&A session with developers at WWDC 1997 — the first after he returned to Apple from his years in the desert at NeXT,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“What is perhaps most relevant today, a week or so before Apple is expected to launch iCloud, is the part where Jobs describes his vision for what is now known as cloud computing,” P.E.D. reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Jobs’ closing words read like an iCloud ad: “I can’t communicate to you how awesome this is, unless you use it. And what you would decide in a day or two is that carrying around these non-connected computers, or computers with tons of state in them, tons of data and state in them, is Byzantine by comparison.”
I can't wait to see what Apple have in store for the future.
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