Age old Apple users bought into the idea their files could be stored away from their machine a long time ago (.Mac) and were the pioneers, even though at the time we as an IT community didn’t really have a widely accepted / notable classification for this “new” technology.
The recently released iDisk iPhone application opens part of the cloud computing initiative to a new unsuspecting audience. Data stored elsewhere is now available to a supporting handset near you…
Suddenly the estimated 20 million+ iPhone handsets are able to access data in the “cloud”.
I think we should call this Patch work Cirrocumulus mobile cloud the ‘Cloud-i-Phone’.