iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

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I think is would be short term. The home user is not going to continuously upload data. They will do an initial sync, then incrementals.

People are doing this today with success. This is not a new thing.

2

I was thinking the same thing. People have been dealing with this for years. File sharing has had the same properties in the access networks for years now.

Jared Mauch

3

I'm not saying that people haven't being doing itŠ Dropbox is an exampleŠ
but you add millions of iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches and OSX Lion's out
there and that means a hell of a lot of new traffic.

ŠSkeeve

4

I'm not saying that people haven't being doing itŠ Dropbox is an exampleŠ
but you add millions of iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches and OSX Lion's out
there and that means a hell of a lot of new traffic.

Especially when you're at the end of a small hose. Comparatively.

What's Oz's aggregate bandwidth to the US?

Will Apple be hosting on-continent?

Cheers,
-- jra