Monday, August 6, 2012

Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud

  • Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, seen here in May 2012, has predicted "horrible problems" in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. (AFP Photo/Torsten Blackwood) 
  • Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, seen here in 
    May 2012, has predicted "horrible problems"

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    AFP - Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted "horrible problems" in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold.

    Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at the penultimate performance in Washington of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," monologist Mike Daisey's controversial two-hour expose of Apple's labor conditions in China.

    In a post-performance dialogue with Daisey and audience members, Wozniak held forth on topics as varied as public education (he once did a stint as a school teacher) and reality TV (having appeared on "Dancing with the Stars").

    But the engineering wizard behind the progenitor of today's personal computer, the Apple II, was most outspoken on the shift away from hard disks towards uploading data into remote servers, known as cloud computing.

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