[Arm-netbook] EOMA/CF idea

[jonsmirl at gmail.com]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:52 PM, jonsmirl at gmail.com <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
>> On 12/30/2011 04:17 PM, jonsmirl at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I think we will just see dirt cheap Android pads, which is pretty much
>>> the same concept but it always includes a screen. You can already get
>>> Android pads for $79 and prices are still falling. Some are available
>>> for $49. These pads will be cheap enough in the future to be
>>> considered disposable.
>> The cpu modules will also swap into tablets and phones.
>>>
>>> You can build local clouds for these pads with wifi, disk drives and
>>> something like a Sheevaplug. Or use a public Internet based cloud.
>>> These local clouds can service many users. You can also build them on
>>> repurposed desktop machines.
>>>
>>> For me, I see the bigger problem is converting 1000s of open source
>>> apps to run in a cloud model. Hardware is not an issue, it is on a
>>> curve where the cost of it will be tiny in a few years.
>>>
>>>
>> Let see how well Chrome OS does on the market and other "cloud"
>> services. This was tried before under a different name. The main problem
>> has been the network. Wireless broadband in the US is still awful
>> (broadband in most areas is not much better) and there is little
>> incentive for providers to improve their service. My guess is not so
>> well unless the pressure from police states encourages/forces consumers
>> to keep all their data on easy for them to get to places like the
>> "cloud". Other areas have much better broadband networks but will people
>> actually want to keep their data on a network mystery drive that they
>> have to pay for with a subscription model?
>
> People always jump to the public Internet cloud as their first stop.
>
> You can run a cloud inside a single machine. Just run a browser and
> server both on the same box.
>
> You can run a cloud inside a school by sharing a server over wifi
> hosting the disk drives.
>
> The cloud concept scales over all ranges, from single system to public Internet.

Open source personal cloud services....

http://lwn.net/Articles/474049/

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com