Comments on: The high costs of the cloud http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/03/28/the-high-costs-of-the-cloud/ Where media and technology meet Fri, 24 May 2013 10:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: wiseInvestor2 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/03/28/the-high-costs-of-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-392110 wiseInvestor2 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:47:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=34327#comment-392110 I always distrust "facts" from vendors that just happen to sell a solution to the problem described. In January 2012 Bytemobile laid off half of development and QA in a worldwide restructuring due to money problems. It would seem they might propose these "facts" as they are desperate for sales. I always distrust “facts” from vendors that just happen to sell a solution to the problem described. In January 2012 Bytemobile laid off half of development and QA in a worldwide restructuring due to money problems. It would seem they might propose these “facts” as they are desperate for sales.

]]> By: LEEDAP http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/03/28/the-high-costs-of-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-392106 LEEDAP Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:26:54 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=34327#comment-392106 I don't understand how not building additional wireless antennas creates a competitive advantage. I guess I need to read Crowe's piece unless someone else here can explain how it keeps competitors' costs high. I don’t understand how not building additional wireless antennas creates a competitive advantage. I guess I need to read Crowe’s piece unless someone else here can explain how it keeps competitors’ costs high.

]]> By: txgadfly http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/03/28/the-high-costs-of-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-392096 txgadfly Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:28:47 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=34327#comment-392096 In addition to the overt dollar cost of radio spectrum bandwidth, there is the covert cost of a total lack of privacy from using wireless devices. Most consumers are bag of rocks ignorant of the difference in privacy laws between radio ("wireless") connections and wired ones ("land lines"). That ignorance, together with a stupidly greedy industry and mendacious and corrupt public officials, has created a new "1984" world where we have no privacy whatever and are subject to arbitrary and covert searches of not only our usage and traffic, but of the content of our devices. This silly and ignorant greed is why we have a "cyber-security" problem in the USA. It is all about which outsiders get to peek into our bedrooms at will. No one questions whether people should be assured privacy. That would be un-American! In addition to the overt dollar cost of radio spectrum bandwidth, there is the covert cost of a total lack of privacy from using wireless devices.

Most consumers are bag of rocks ignorant of the difference in privacy laws between radio (“wireless”) connections and wired ones (“land lines”). That ignorance, together with a stupidly greedy industry and mendacious and corrupt public officials, has created a new “1984″ world where we have no privacy whatever and are subject to arbitrary and covert searches of not only our usage and traffic, but of the content of our devices. This silly and ignorant greed is why we have a “cyber-security” problem in the USA.

It is all about which outsiders get to peek into our bedrooms at will. No one questions whether people should be assured privacy. That would be un-American!

]]> By: CapitalismSays http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/03/28/the-high-costs-of-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-392021 CapitalismSays Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:47:54 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=34327#comment-392021 If people insist on streaming video to their phones and tablets over the network this will indeed be a huge problem. As carriers cap data (and those haven't will--they have to), there's a simple solution. Just grab a few videos from the cloud over a wifi network before you go somewhere. When you're done, delete them. People use 4G to do this now because they can. When they can't, they'll find another way. It's not like there's a lack of options. If people insist on streaming video to their phones and tablets over the network this will indeed be a huge problem. As carriers cap data (and those haven’t will–they have to), there’s a simple solution. Just grab a few videos from the cloud over a wifi network before you go somewhere. When you’re done, delete them. People use 4G to do this now because they can. When they can’t, they’ll find another way. It’s not like there’s a lack of options.

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