I still don't get it, a 10gb harddisk can cost up to $20 bucks, the same of the cost of a monthly subscription. And a harddisk can beat to death even to a 1000mbps local network connection.
May be the point is to have "captive users" instead to enforce the productivity and cost involved.
IF say like me, you need something for the kids to check email, homework, etc, a setup like this is actually pretty nice as long as it has a few USB ports for media playing the storage of whatever small files the kids would use is essentially nil negating the whole use of a HDD. Plus if you can link accounts it could be used as an (slow) application server for household that might be on a tighter budget, one copy of say Office for the family served slowly is still better than say four copies of it in the right situation
i can see this being useful to businesses that require scalable apps accross the network, but as this is pretty much already in place I cant see it taking off. not whilst outside of a lan, most providers in the uk at least, charge for bandwidth. At BT wholesale level it's around £1 - 1.50 per gig.
Don't pay for the $20 subscription fee. Just register for a free Web Computer at http://www.airset.com to use with the hardware. You can read more about AirSet from this article:
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I still don't get it, a 10gb harddisk can cost up to $20 bucks, the same of the cost of a monthly subscription. And a harddisk can beat to death even to a 1000mbps local network connection.
May be the point is to have "captive users" instead to enforce the productivity and cost involved.
IF say like me, you need something for the kids to check email, homework, etc, a setup like this is actually pretty nice as long as it has a few USB ports for media playing the storage of whatever small files the kids would use is essentially nil negating the whole use of a HDD. Plus if you can link accounts it could be used as an (slow) application server for household that might be on a tighter budget, one copy of say Office for the family served slowly is still better than say four copies of it in the right situation
i can see this being useful to businesses that require scalable apps accross the network, but as this is pretty much already in place I cant see it taking off. not whilst outside of a lan, most providers in the uk at least, charge for bandwidth. At BT wholesale level it's around £1 - 1.50 per gig.
Don't pay for the $20 subscription fee. Just register for a free Web Computer at http://www.airset.com to use with the hardware. You can read more about AirSet from this article:
http://lifehacker.com/5112479/airset-creates-cloud-computers-for-your-data