Warning: iCloud; a danger to HDD's very way of life!

In a move no doubt aiding in Steve Jobs' inevitable plan of world domination, Apple has recently introduced the iCloud, a web based sync service for all your iCrap. And while this is one of the few things that Apple has done recently that has not made me want to gouge my eyes out and pour salt in them, this was offset by the media's coverage of the damned thing. They're almost as stupid as the products they're reporting on.

"...three companies certainly will mourn the loss of the PC as an iTunes synch station: Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital. The spinning disk gang are fresh out of luck." (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/disk_troika_face_consumer_hdd_decline/)


I would like to take a moment to point out that iPads, iPhones, and iPods all have storage drives (flash drives more specifically). You know, because you might want to store a thing or two on them from time to time. And all flash drives have to be made by someone, don't they? Oh that's right! Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital all make flash drives, HDDs, and SSDs, whom all supply Apple.


Also, apparently there are those that don't understand how the internet works.Whenever you access something online, it is being accessed from a server, which has a....? You guessed it! Storage drive! More often than not, an HDD.... one of those 'spinning disks' that are apparently fresh out of luck. Apparently those at The Register are mistaken in thinking that the internet is a bunch of information that just floats along in wires, waiting to be wrangled in to your device, like some weird binary rodeo. Or at least that's what they'd like everyone else to believe, because the iCloud servers won't be any different from those that already exist.


But what if there's something else? What if Mr. Jobs has another surprise in store for us with the new iCloud service? I think there's really only one reasonable explanation....

Pictured: Apple's iCloud server room.

I wouldn't worry too much about it, I think it's only a matter of time before the whole thing becomes self aware and dooms us all.