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by Letterbox » 08 May 2013, 09:52
A problem that no-one seems to see or realize is that the 'pirates' are not going to pack up and go home. The alternative is they'll hack the cloud. (and that's been done with various cloud based email's of many politicians - phones too.) But interestingly people seem to not equate them, as maybe until they do, the realization is that when they do hack the cloud, they now have your data too.
Nor has only said anything about the legality of exactly where the data is stored, your country or another? Does that also imply when signing up for the cloud, you have to give up any sovereign data protection laws?
Nor as has happened with many companies, the largest being netflix, what do they say to you when the cloud don't work? "Sorry...We're working on restoring it."
On a positive note, and I like the way people are for the first time looking at alternatives, it might mean a return to the golden days of software engineering, were developers listen, act and develop what a "cross-section" of customers want.
Two good examples of that would be Fabric-Engine, letting customers on open(ish) beta's, in turn aiding and guiding the development, a real and tangible partnership to develop a superior product.
The other was Exocortex Momentum beta where we with others helped Helge, find bugs, suggested ideas, workflows, were asked what features we wanted and if was the way we wanted it, helped with documentation, and got the development-debug-release cycle turnaround to a speed large corps. have long since forgotten.
I could site many more such examples...
So yes, there are benefits for Adobe moving to the cloud. Some of those benefits might not exact be what they were hoping for.