Billionaire Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak: Cloud computing trend is ‘horrendous’

The co-founder, of one of the most profitable, successful Corporation in America (Steve Wozniak), accurately profiled the “cloud computing”; stating that it will be “horrendous”. Steve couldn’t be more accurate. The fact of the matter is, ‘early adopters’, youth consumers, etc. DO NOT consider the catastrophic effects of virtual media, business applications, etc. In Freedumbnation’ humble opinion, and we have a number of advanced programmers, ‘techies’, etc. on our team and they all agree. If you condense every bit of critical/non-critical data/information, into a central repository, you create a vacuum, whereby the Gov’t can ingest and eliminate what they consider to be a threat to their agenda. Take the Nazi Party, when they began burning books, etc. the only difference with virtual media/applications, is that ‘They’ can simply press delete, to remove what they consider to be Politically volatile.

The bearded designer of the Apple II is prone to off-message statements, but the latest one takes a dig at an area Apple has just invested a lot of money in: the cloud. Apple’s iCloud online backup storage product was launched a year ago and plays a prominent role in the company’s iOS and Mac OS X operating systems.
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Woz thinks data storage and processing in the cloud will lead to disaster: “I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said, reported by AFP. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”

Woz also worried about ownership in a world of floating cloud-based content:

With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away. I want to feel that I own things [...] A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say: the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.

Wozniak’s choice of venue won’t be warmly received at Apple either – he was sharing a stage with Mike Daisey at a performance of the monologuist’s show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. The show caused a scandal after it was aired on radio show This American Life, because significant claims about conditions for workers in Apple’s supply chain were disputed by the translator who was with Daisey during his trip to China.

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