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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fwd: ubiquitous environment?
Date: Sat,  3 Mar 2018 12:17:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180303201730.GC29087@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90864FBC-2F73-41EE-B47E-FCF123478CC3@quintile.net>

On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 07:13:57PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> personally i think this idea will become more and more important as we get fiber to the home, local storage will become a thing of the past.

I remember hearing this sentiment with '9600 baud modems' standing in
for 'fiber to the home.'

If anything kills local storage, it will be vendor lock within the
android and ios worlds.  Banking on change being caused by *improved*
infrastructure is hanging your jacket on a shaky nail.

khm



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-03 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAOEdRO14fa3VT_dWatAo66aB3YD530Q3uK=KC2DjJ2T5wjQ1wQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-03 16:22 ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-03-03 17:41   ` hiro
2018-03-03 19:13     ` Steve Simon
2018-03-03 19:18       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2018-03-03 19:23         ` Steve Simon
2018-03-03 19:27           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2018-03-03 20:17       ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2018-03-03 23:32       ` hiro
2018-03-03 23:46         ` Steve Simon
2018-03-04  0:02           ` hiro
2018-03-04  0:03             ` hiro
2018-03-03 23:24   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-03-03 23:40     ` hiro
2018-03-03 23:43     ` hiro
2018-03-04  0:10       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-03-03 23:56   ` cigar562hfsp952fans
2018-03-04  7:17     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2018-03-04  8:23       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2018-03-04  8:57   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2018-03-08 12:38     ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-03-08 19:19       ` FJ Ballesteros
2018-03-09  0:45         ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2018-03-09  5:50           ` Sean Callanan
2018-03-09  6:23           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2018-03-08 23:29       ` 岡本健二

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