I got the following post from my son Andrew (a designer in Providence, RI) on Twitter this morning:
ahaar Just got app for streaming music from home computer to iPhone. Device storage = irrelevant, future = now
That home computer, though, still needs space for music, photos and video. I just bought an iMac yesterday, mostly for photo editing, and it has a half terabyte drive. I see that the drive in the latest TiVo is a full TB. In March 2006 I wrote here that the then 100-GB TiVo hard drive would be 1.6 TB in five ticks of Moore's Law (1 tick = 18 months). Wrong -- it took only 32 months to get to 1 TB. Big home storage seems to be a settled thing, but increasingly it looks to me like Andrew is right about the diminished need for mobile storage as long as 3G mobile networks are available. --Dennis
Dennis, well said,as always. I added it to my dailywisdoms twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/dailywisdoms/ Cheers!
Posted by: Gerd Leonhard | Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 04:55