Unfortunately, for some of us, a speed bump (literally) in the road to Cloud adoption is that the Internet is not such an able manager of data - especially for large data transfers when time is of the essence. The Internet ably manages our media and other personal data…….” - a trend she sees as having plenty of growth potential. There’s no need for a beefy processor or numerous ports when online services do the heavy lifting for us. Lee observes,” the hub has moved from local computing in our machines and gadgets, to the cloud. Thunderbolt, a “next big thing” of the not too distant past, seems to be getting ushered out in favor of do-all USB-3, which appears destined to supersede even Apple’s excellent MagSafe charge cord technology.
However, I’m a major fan of Dropbox for keeping working files synchronized across my various devices, and I’ve come to depend exclusively on Webmail for email aside from one account configured in the Mail app on my iPad mainly for emailing photos, both to myself and others.Īdriana Lee sees dependence on wireless and the Cloud as an enabler for Apple’s being able to offer lower powered Macs with fewer connectivity features and less content being sold at the same or higher price points of course improves Apple’s margins. I’ve been cautious about flying into the CLoud, and have never bothered to activate an iCloud account, although I suppose someday I’ll get around to it.
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However, was rather partial to the digital hub concept, and whatever my number one Mac happens to be at the time continues to serve in that role to some degree managing and backing up my iOS devices, storing and working with my photos, editing and organizing the contents of my Dropbox folder with a real directory interface and so forth.
Indeed, we’ve been hearing little of “digital hub” for years, what with Apple’s commitment to wireless and the Cloud, and diminishing hardware support for wired connectivity. Lee observes that current CEO Tim Cook has now “officially retired” the Mac as digital hub paradigm by releasing a new premium laptop with a single port, calling the new 12-inch MacBook “the future of the notebook” implying none too subtly that port minimalism will be the way of the future.
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And we believe the PC or more importantly the Mac can become the digital hub of our new emerging digital lifestyle, with the ability to add tremendous value to these other digital devices,” Jobs allowed. “We are living in a new digital lifestyle with an explosion of digital devices.
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Jobs laid out a roadmap that would guide Apple’s marketing strategy through the pre-iPhone years, positioning the personal computer as a mothership device of sorts anchoring an array of peripheral and ancillary digital devices that would connect to the Mac which would store, organize and manage their data and software maintenance ergo a “digital hub.” Macs of the day were well-equipped to fulfill such a role, with USB for low bandwidth stuff Ethernet for hard wired networking and Apple-developed FireWire as a high speed data interface. ReadWrite’s Adriana Lee has posted a eulogy for the “Digital Hub” concept Steve Jobs first proposed back in 2001, declaring the new 12-inch MacBook with its single, over-subscribed USB-C port to be the final nail in Digital Hub’s coffin.įourteen years ago, at Macworld (before Apple bailed on the event) Mr. Minimalist MacBook Confirms Death of Steve Jobs’s digital hub Concept – The ‘Book Mystique
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