Apple founder warns of 'horrendous' cloud computing risks

[Jazzy]

Cloud computing will cause horrible problems, according to Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple.



Wozniak told an audience in Washington DC: I really worry about everything going into the cloud. 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.



Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, was speaking after a performance of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a monologue about working conditions at Apple's Chinese factories.



The play attracted controversy earlier this year when Mike Daisey, the performer, admitted that he had fabricated some of the stories in the piece. Daisey originally claimed that the stories in the monologue were taken from interviews he conducted with Chinese workers during a visit to the country in 2010.



Daisey, who has since re-worked his script, invited Wozniak to the penultimate performance of the show.



Answering questions from the audience, the 61-year-old Wozniak said: With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.



He added: 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.

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Your thoughts?

 

[Evil Eye]

Man has a point. Cloud computing does wonders for device size vs power/capacity and it's probably better for the environment (less transporting, less waste), but you are no longer in control. If you lose connection to the cloud, your device will be useless. If the cloud suffers from a (major) problem, lots of people won't be able to use their devices anymore. And whoever controls the cloud gets a lot of (personal/private) data...