> IHS memory analyst Dee Nguyen said Apple’s move to the cloud could have “significant implications” on the memory market. “With Apple products like the iPhone and iPad accounting for a disproportionate share of NAND flash demand, any move among Apple users to offload storage to the company’s iCloud service could mean a corresponding decrease in demand for physical NAND flash memory in the future,” the analyst said.
via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/19/launch_of_apples_icloud_could_weaken_market_demand_for_nand_flash.html)
Wow, that’s one of the stupidest arguments I’ve heard in a long time.
Does this guy not know how iCloud works? Does AppleInsider not have enough sense to see the flaw in his logic?
iCloud doesn’t diminish the need for local storage. At. All. It actually increases the need for storage on all your devices, because YOUR FILES ARE GOING TO BE SAVED LOCALLY ON ALL YOUR DEVICES.
So instead of having one copy of that file on your laptop, you’re going to have one on your laptop, one on your iPhone, and one on your iPad. Three times the storage. You’re going to want MORE RAM on your iPhone, not less.
iCloud is not a streaming service. This isn’t Google apps. Data is stored locally.
Sheesh.
