Arizona, Utah and the myth of the perfectible network
By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial
Posted in Networking, Telecoms, Wireless, Email, Mobile, Internet, Uncategorized on
Why bother with local storage and heavyweight applications when you could just use the cloud? Because they always work, that’s why.
To prepare for six solid days of meetings and presentations, crowds, queues and the three-ring CES circus, we’ve been driving through the quiet, cold American southwest. It’s been extra quiet and peaceful without email and phone calls. It’s not that we swore off connectivity to take a holiday. It’s not that there isn’t 3G and HSDPA coverage out in the wilds. We didn’t forget to enable roaming or run out of battery and I have a bag-ful of handsets to try out… It’s that the cellular networks that serve the Navajo Nation and many of the surrounding counties don’t have international roaming agreements.
Yes, there’s hotel and motel Wi-Fi - but you’re often sharing a very slow DSL connection with everyone else in the hotel that everyone else is using to upload their photos to Flickr. Plus, you don’t want to be tied to the hotel when you’re wanting to explore.
Cloud services and cloud storage are great for collaboration and for having files available on any machine you happen to pick up. But switching entirely to the cloud assumes that the network is always there, always working, always fast enough, always cheap enough and doesn’t run down your battery too much. Back in the real world, it’s too easy to run out of power or drive out of range for online to be your only option. And don’t say it’s a contrived case and only a few people will be driving around wanting to do email or update their diary in Monument Valley: there are plenty of places in Las Vegas where you can’t get connected either.
-Mary
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