Fat, oh so fat

Not a good day for food. Lunch wasn't too great, a bacon and cheese turnover thing, and then some chocolate. Then went to my Dad's this evening as it's his birthday to drop off presents. He and his wife had already had a big lunch so I went out and got a chinese to eat at theirs, plus there was more chocolate.

Interesting article:

http://www.cringely.com/2011/06/iclouds-real-purpose-is-to-kill-windows/

I feel quite alarmed by all this shit going on. The idea that computers become locked down terminals accessing a cloud service instead of a general purpose tool has been a worrying one for some time, and since everyone follows Apples lead for some reason, this could be the thing that finally makes it happen. Not sure I agree with the idea that consumers have been leading IT for the last decade - maybe at home, but not in the business market.

I can't see it happening quickly in the business market - there's always so much legacy stuff to support and businesses like to know (or should do) exactly where their data is, but for home users, maybe. It's a scary thought to think that the traditional general purpose computer might become a niche market, like it was when they first came out.

Fucking Apple. Back when Steve Jobs came back and saved the company with the iMac, I was happy that the Mac survived. Now that he's turned Apple into something more evil than Microsoft could ever hope to be. I wish he'd never bothered and left it to die. I mean the Mac was always non-standard and locked down to a degree but now it's much worse with the iOS platform.

That bloody cloud. You'd think that people would think twice about sending their data into the great unknown with all the Sony shit that went on recently.

But at the same time I can see the other side of it. A lot of people don't know or want to know about operating systems, data security, or any of that. They'd quite happily put their data on Apple's servers if it meant they didn't have to worry about updates, backups or whatever. So I don't know. Perhaps the cloud and normal computers can co-exist.