Smuggling USB Sticks
Another bucket of fuel to my pool of reasons to think the "Cloud" is misguided.<p>Last time in a Pycon conference in Beijing, 5/4 speeches were about new cloud offers (it was advertising actually). This makes no sense.<p>People should not do their stuff in free apps running on devices they don't really own, and these apps should not store that stuff in a cloud vaguely rented by the app maker.<p>Instead, people should use open tools, running on devices they own, storing things on some storage they own and control.<p>On my bed, I can use my tablet to browse pics I have taken with my phone, while listening to music I have ripped on my desktop long time ago. It seems necessary to be able to do so, but it is not necessary to hand over all your stuff to Apple or Google or Dropbox to do so. (And all your things should be right there even if you ISP is down.)<p>The obvious solution I used is a "local cloud" (just a samba server on a little Raspberry Pi actually). But on Android strangely only very few media players on devices acknowledge this need and let my slide pics, listen to music or watch video from the LAN. (I have no idea on iOS, I suppose it is even worse, do they have VLC on iOS?)<p>edit: clarify