{"id":903,"date":"2012-03-20T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2012-03-20T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:50:28","slug":"is-icloud-a-personal-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/is-icloud-a-personal-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Is iCloud a Personal Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how my personal photos move around effortlessly between my iPhone, the iPad and iPhoto on the MacBook, by virtue of Apple&#8217;s iCloud. They just &#8220;show up&#8221; when I want them, as if by magic (sorry, but this marketing slogan is somewhat appropriate here).<\/p>\n<p>So is iCloud a Personal Cloud, in the sense it <a href=\"\/2012\/03\/my-take-on-personal-cloud-computing\/\">has<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/cloudline\/2012\/03\/the-personal-cloud\/\">been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windley.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/an_operating_system_for_your_personal_cloud.shtml\">discussed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/equalsdrummond.name\/2011\/02\/14\/the-personal-cloud-take-3-thomas-vander-wals-personal-infocloud\/\">recently<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think so. iCloud doesn&#8217;t feel like a thing to me. It&#8217;s more like some proactive ether around me that magically moves stuff around without ever making an appearance itself.<\/p>\n<p>I think something like <a href=\"http:\/\/owncloud.org\/\">ownCloud<\/a> has a much better claim to delivering a Personal Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how my personal photos move around effortlessly between my iPhone, the iPad and iPhoto on the MacBook, by virtue of Apple&#8217;s iCloud. They just &#8220;show up&#8221; when I want them, as if by magic (sorry, but this marketing slogan is somewhat appropriate here). So is iCloud a Personal Cloud, in the sense it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,23,65,44],"tags":[217,220,219,218],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-cloud","category-personal","category-software","tag-icloud","tag-owncloud","tag-personal-cloud","tag-photo","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}