Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

[Seth Mos <seth.mos () dds nl>]

Op 3 sep 2011, om 19:49 heeft Jimmy Hess het volgende geschreven:

> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Skeeve Stevens <Skeeve () eintellego net> wrote:
>
> > My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when 
> > launched will 'upload' obscene amounts of gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to 
> > their data centres.

> since a majority of music files backed up would be file-identical
> with  material  someone else had already backed up,
> and identical to material  already in  the iTunes store  (which they
> could pre-seed their database with).

How would storage vendors otherwise sell de duplication. I mean you could make the application smarter but that 
wouldn't sell more spinning rust or licenses.

Regards,

Seth