An open community 
of Macintosh users,
for Macintosh users.

FineTunedMac Dashboard widget now available! Download Here

Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Into the Future
#18216 10/12/11 01:44 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 16
Moderator
OP Offline
Moderator

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 16
This is in response to post 18212 by Grelber.


With your dialup internet connection there is something you should be aware of. Apple has been migrating more and more of the help and other functions to the internet for years. Help has quietly bee on the leading edge of a major trend. When you or I do a search in help there will very likely be more online than local references. Whether you like it or not this is very much to our advantage because it allows Apple to be constantly expanding, updating, and evolving the Help files without our having to download new help files weekly.

The migration of Help information to the internet is just the tip of the iceberg. Apple recently moved from synchronizing calendars and contacts on multiple devices to sharing calendars and contacts store on the web between multiple computers and iDevices not to mention multiple users and the entire process works a lot better and more smoothly than synchronizing ever did. Even if you don't intend to share your calendars and contacts between devices or users, having critical data like that on Apple's server farms is about as good a backup as you can get and certainly at free the price is right.

If you look at pretty much everything Apple has done in the last few years has been moving toward making the cloud (a.k.a. the internet) an integral part of the desktop. Apple isn't alone in doing this either. All the major players such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are moving in the same direction. When iCloud is activated in the next few weeks the line between the desktop and the cloud is going to become a lot fuzzier. In fact the line between my iMac and my iPad is going to become pretty fuzzy too. The day of a computer as an isolated machine is past. Computers are simply one more device in an interconnected network of devices linked together by the internet into a single entity for the creation, collection, and processing of information.

I understand your reluctance to swallow the not insignificant cost of a broadband internet connection. But I urge you to consider the pain you are currently going through because of the huge jump you have made from OS 9 to OS X 10.7. The time is going to come a lot sooner rather than later when you are going to have to make the transition to high speed internet and it will be a lot easier and less traumatic to you if you will make the transition now and take the changes is smaller bites rather than waiting and having to swallow the whole thing in one giant gulp.


If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein
Re: Into the Future
joemikeb #18218 10/12/11 01:59 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 4
Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 4
Not sure why this thread is in the Lounge. I only came across it by accident because I just started a new thread here.

Broadband from whatever source is outrageously overpriced in the Canadian marketplace. As I noted as an aside in "Help - Content not available" (#18171): it costs 4-5x what I'm laying out for dial-up service. Given that I'm on the Internet less than 3 hours per day, it'd be an even greater waste of resources (which I'd rather put to wine acquisition).

I can tell you right now that the "cloud" holds no charm or enticement for me. I don't want to be "connected" to all and sundry. If push comes to shove, I will indeed abjure [and I mean that in its strongest sense!] computers and the Internet for the rest of my time on earth. (Back to snail mail and the telephone.]

I may even start my wine drinking a few hours early today.


Moderated by  alternaut, cyn 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.4
(Release build 20200307)
Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.4.33 Page Time: 0.015s Queries: 18 (0.011s) Memory: 0.5735 MB (Peak: 0.6265 MB) Data Comp: Zlib Server Time: 2024-03-29 11:07:51 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS