Wozniak: Cloud computing trend is ‘horrendous’

Anna Leach
theregister.co.uk
August 6, 2012

The risks of cloud computing will be “horrendous”, Steve Wozniak said last night, in a statement that will set eyeballs rolling at Apple – the company he co-founded with Steve Jobs.

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.

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.”

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This article was posted: Monday, August 6, 2012 at 4:15 pm

Tags: domestic news, internet, science, technology

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