I laugh because people thing cloud is bad now....wait until it hits full force in 5 to 10 yrs
You are free to think that but some of us like having physical access and control of our own data!
No joke; that's why I have one 12TB Raid 6 array and am currently building another 24TB array... (Actively testing the HDDs as I type this... Dang it takes FOREVER to validate 4TB drives... holy crap...). But people act as if the 'cloud' is something new... As if mainframes, servers, "internet" never existed before... Hang a catchy name on it and suddenly it's worth $... Ugg... And no, I do NOT pirate anything... Personally can't stand people who don't pay for their own stuff... I have a considerable BluRay collection of my own as well as home videos of my twins which is growing out of control (don't buy the wife a new video camera and promise to keep everything in full definition when she has unlimited access to your seemingly endless storage arrays... OMG she can put a serious hurting on it... Hours and hours and hours... Especially all at 1080p/60... Dumping the camera's drive is a nightly occurrence anymore... /cry)
As for the 'One... I'm a PC person myself... But was looking forward to this actually. Haven't used my 360 in 3+ years... Just formatted it to take it in to sell it or give it away... But the fact that 1) it doesn't support FLAC or MKV (or other very common media formats other then MS's own flavors...) and they expect it to be the media 'center'... (or at least didn't at the last press release I saw it at, maybe they updated it. doubt it.) 2) Always on is just bad simply because there are plenty of places without reliable internet. I'm not one of them but plenty of my friends are. They live in the boonies and just don't have any high-speed internet at all and/or are stuck with satellite internet which is notoriously horrible for any sort of 'gaming' situations (pings in the 2-3 second range, though the stay alive might still work but... Only one of them even bothers with this internet at all...).
These are people with a LOT of $. Million dollar homes on much more valuable land. Just out of reach of internet. (happens when you own a few thousand acres...) They actually just use their unlimited cellphones almost exclusively for internet save enormous downloads but you'd be surprised what 4G LTE can really do, especially when you have a tower on the back of your property... But even they aren't going to get them. They decided also to go PS4 this time around just for that reason. And granted it's only a handful of families in this case, but they would have bought a few dozen units total to be used as media boxes, gaming boxes, etc throughout the house(s). Not to mention how many, always new, games they would buy their kids or selves regularly... In my book, that has to be considered a fat loss. I just don't understand what M$ is thinking anymore...
First W8 then this... And when administrators screamed about 8, nothing. Then the users really complained about it with metro and the menu... nothing... Then finally 8.1 which is bringing... Ohh.. really nothing... Then the 'One. So many great potential ideas, so many thoughts and progress in the field... Then they shoot them selves in the butt dropping ogg, flac, mkv, etc. and then forcing always on and leaving no-poor internet users out in the cold... Heck, even here in the big city, my insanely awesome internet is a mind-blowing 30M/5M setup... hold me back... wee... Not to mention effectively half duplex. But it's the best available... Comeon Fiber!!!
Sorry for the rant...