Just like the iPod and iPhone Apple is stealing my ideas. Maybe they have my webcam hooked up to send my thoughts to them every hour on the hour like they did in Antitrust.

It's come out today that Apple is going to spend $1 billion dollars on a new datacenter. What would prompt them to spend that kind of money on a datacenter? The only thing anyone can figure is cloud computing. Cloud computing is the future of the internet. It allows applications to not run on the end-users computer but out on the internet.

What I think they are doing, and my idea first BTW, is a cloud based operating system. Imagine turning on any computer anywhere and having immediate access to all your files and having the system start off where you last left it. No more installing patches or software updates on your own. No more syncing files from your work computer to your home. No more need for IT help desk (or a lot less need). No more needing to use a specific office at work. Any terminal can be yours.

Think of it this way your computer is the internet. The laptop and desktops you currently use can be replaced with dumb terminals that the most important thing is a high speed internet connection not the CPU+RAM+Hard Drive.

If apple were to go down this road lots of questions are raised. Like what happens to apple hardware when the machine used to access the cloud OS doesn't matter anymore? What about people that don't have an internet connections. I've got answers but I'm not giving everything away for free! (Apple feel free to reach out for consultation)

Maybe I'll look back at this blog post in a few years and say I told you so. Or maybe it will come out that apple was just getting ready to sell porn in iTunes and wanted to have the proper infrastructure to pay for it!

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