I love putting my Back Up on Mozy, but I would hate for everything to live up there. If everything lives in the cloud. What happens when the network goes down? I occasionally lose my internet connection. There should be at least two local storage spots. One on the device and one on a secondary computer or device. One thing I hate about the New Phones, is that a lot of them don't let you download your data, even as back up onto a home computer or additional memory device. One thing I liked about AT&T and Motorola is that I have a program that lets me download everything from the phone onto my computer. The fact that I can make ringtones and modify the address book on the computer is useful but secondary. I did lose the data on the phone once, and it was easily restored, Locally. If you bought the same phone from Verizon, you could only store that data on Their Servers. We know now how secure Anyone's Servers can be. Clouds are nice if you travel and need access away from home. But local back ups are Necessary. And I worry about the local booksellers as well. I buy books from the locals as much as is reasonable. But even most of the "local" books stores are the Big Chains these days, so they hardly qualify as something I desperately need to support. Yes, I love browsing through Real Books, but I don't feel a loyalty to Barnes and Nobel the way I do a true local book store. As the overseer of Book Creation (Mythopoeic Press), I also see the other side of this. Our cover price for the next book is $23. Why? Because after Amazon takes their discount, we barely break even on the production costs. We do give the same discount to the little guys, but they will be selling it for $23 or close to it, to take care of their other expenses. We do appreciate the person who buys it off our website for the cover price, then we make enough money to support other Mythopoeic Ventures. I do advise our web person to make the Paypal link easy, and the Amazon link a bit harder to use. ;)
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Date: 2009-10-17 06:52 pm (UTC)If everything lives in the cloud. What happens when the network goes down? I occasionally lose my internet connection. There should be at least two local storage spots. One on the device and one on a secondary computer or device. One thing I hate about the New Phones, is that a lot of them don't let you download your data, even as back up onto a home computer or additional memory device.
One thing I liked about AT&T and Motorola is that I have a program that lets me download everything from the phone onto my computer. The fact that I can make ringtones and modify the address book on the computer is useful but secondary. I did lose the data on the phone once, and it was easily restored, Locally.
If you bought the same phone from Verizon, you could only store that data on Their Servers. We know now how secure Anyone's Servers can be.
Clouds are nice if you travel and need access away from home. But local back ups are Necessary.
And I worry about the local booksellers as well. I buy books from the locals as much as is reasonable. But even most of the "local" books stores are the Big Chains these days, so they hardly qualify as something I desperately need to support. Yes, I love browsing through Real Books, but I don't feel a loyalty to Barnes and Nobel the way I do a true local book store.
As the overseer of Book Creation (Mythopoeic Press), I also see the other side of this. Our cover price for the next book is $23. Why? Because after Amazon takes their discount, we barely break even on the production costs. We do give the same discount to the little guys, but they will be selling it for $23 or close to it, to take care of their other expenses. We do appreciate the person who buys it off our website for the cover price, then we make enough money to support other Mythopoeic Ventures. I do advise our web person to make the Paypal link easy, and the Amazon link a bit harder to use. ;)