Comments on: Eliminate the Middleman: From the Cloud to Mobile http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/11/04/eliminate-the-middleman-from-the-cloud-to-mobile/ Random rants and wandering words Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ctb http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/11/04/eliminate-the-middleman-from-the-cloud-to-mobile/comment-page-1/#comment-408048 ctb Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:07:06 +0000 http://www.anotherblogger.com/?p=1090#comment-408048 At first I was also excited about this, and thought that I'd be able to create my own RSS feed of things that I'd like in 'podcast' form for digest on my iPhone when I'm away from my computer. But alas, I then realized that this new feature will likely only apply to podcasts listed in the iTunes Podcast directory. There are even 'shows' that I listen to who don't fall under the technical specification of a podcast, which I won't be able to listen to with my own method. So in that case, the middleman, my home Mac, serves an invaluable purpose: Allowing me to bend the rules imposed on my device, or to break these rules to use my device how I wish. The idea of cloud computing is great, except that each implementation is different and only applies to a specific domain area - typically a specific service (in this case podcasts via iTunes) which have inherent limitations that make it near useless. I'll be really excited when generalized cloud computing is available (something probably between iTunes-in-the-Cloud and EC2). At first I was also excited about this, and thought that I’d be able to create my own RSS feed of things that I’d like in ‘podcast’ form for digest on my iPhone when I’m away from my computer. But alas, I then realized that this new feature will likely only apply to podcasts listed in the iTunes Podcast directory. There are even ‘shows’ that I listen to who don’t fall under the technical specification of a podcast, which I won’t be able to listen to with my own method. So in that case, the middleman, my home Mac, serves an invaluable purpose: Allowing me to bend the rules imposed on my device, or to break these rules to use my device how I wish.

The idea of cloud computing is great, except that each implementation is different and only applies to a specific domain area – typically a specific service (in this case podcasts via iTunes) which have inherent limitations that make it near useless.

I’ll be really excited when generalized cloud computing is available (something probably between iTunes-in-the-Cloud and EC2).

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