Ten years ago Apple was still doing MacWorld Expo keynotes, and that year they introduced Time Capsule.
My response was this: forget Time Capsule, I want a space ship:
So here’s my real question: Why hasn’t Apple figured out how to offer me a storage solution that puts frequently used items on local disk, and less-frequently used items on a network disk? Seamlessly.
Ten years later: cloud storage is definitely the norm. Dropbox is about to IPO. And iCloud is the glue that unifies the Apple experience across all its devices (and which you’re perpetually out of space on, unless you pay).