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iApple's iCEO iNtroduces iMac's iDisk
> You can talk about eye-candy (in the hardware, or in the software) all you
> want (and I must admit, I'm liking it too), but the word is COMPATABILITY.
> I want to access and use my files from anywhere - I want to remotely call
> programs on my mac from some PC (using rpc, I guess :) ). I want to fire up
> an FTP program and access my files. I don't want to think about it too
> hard. I just want to do it…
>
“This bubble has already been burst [1]”
There seems to be some buzz going on about Apple's Apple' s recent
announcement [2] reguarding iDisk.
Some people are worried that Apple is trying to control both ends of the Web
(and Jobs has been quoted [3] as saying just that) but if you actually read
the announcement, it seems they're going to be doing that Geocities [4] thang
of offering “free” web hosting (only in this case, it's not exactly free—you
have to buy a iMac first) and making it very easy to create the site (it
appears local to your machine).
Not a bad idea really. Take NFS (Network File System) (or Samba, or
AppleTalk, or … ), add authentication to the protocol (well, NFS already
required authentication but not to a user level) and the whole notion of FTP
(File Transport Protocol), or publishing, goes away.
You do have to be aware of security issues, so it might be better to start
from scratch. Might have to check out the protocol used for iDisk.
[1]
http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$14164
[2]
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2000/01/mwsf/keynote.html
[3]
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33475,00.html
[4]
http://www.geocities.com/
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