{"id":3327,"date":"2008-07-06T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T05:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2008-07-06T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T05:14:29","slug":"head-in-the-cloud-this-weeks-new-iphone-is-the-first-strike-at-a-universal-remote-control-for-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3327\/head-in-the-cloud-this-weeks-new-iphone-is-the-first-strike-at-a-universal-remote-control-for-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Head in the cloud: This week’s new iPhone is the first strike at a universal remote control for cloud computing"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of our breathtakingly romantic anniversary weekend, Cathy and I were talking today about all of the various types of digital storage devices we have actually used in our lives. I thought it would be a fun exercise at a conference, simply as a way of illustrating how rapidly technology changes while we’re not paying attention.<\/p>\n

But stop for a moment and think: Right now, you’re probably using hard disks, CD- or DVR-ROMs and thumb drives for storage. You used to have Zip drives and streaming tape drives and flexi- and floppy-disks, but we are within a year or two of being rid of magnetic media altogether. Solid state hard disks will be hugely capacious, hugely fast, very secure and wicked cheap.<\/p>\n

And then: What next?<\/p>\n

It’s plausible to me that the next level of off-line digital storage will be the cloud itself — multiple, multiply-redundant, self-replicating, self-maintaining copies of your data, instantly accessible and virtually indestructible. I’m presuming the advent of Web 3.0, as well, but we are there already anyway.<\/p>\n

I rank on Windows because it’s funny, but it doesn’t mean anything. In the cloud, Windows is a dead letter, and Apple only matters as a model of how to build elegant, functional software. The cloud is beyond operating systems, because, just as Web 2.0 is ideally browser-independent, Web 3.0 is operating system-independent. It will not matter how you address the cloud, since every way you have of doing that is simply a user interface — browser-, operating system- and device-independent.<\/p>\n

This is why it is worthwhile for everyone — not just people in the real estate business — to think about the iPhone. It’s not a Mac OS computer, it’s the first strike at a universal remote control for cloud computing.<\/p>\n

The ideal way to do forms on an iPhone (or any mobile device) is not by filling in the blanks on a PDF file, but, rather, filling in the blanks on a multi-page HTML form. The complete contract language could be there, in readable HTML, and the Realtor or lender could let the client type their own text fields and click their Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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