“Technology, when done ambitiously, is a form of art and as with painting, it’s always interesting to see how three different artists have approached the same subject,” Andy Ihnatko writes for Macworld.
“All art is autobiographical in nature, or so I heard in between naps during my Art History classes,” Ihnatko writes. “It’s hard for me not to look at iCloud and the other new cloud services offered by Google and Amazon and think of them as emblematic of the companies’ views on the world.”
Ihnatko writes, “What I find most remarkable about iCloud is that (unless there’s a lot more that Apple hasn’t shown us yet) it’s not a destination: it’s a highway system… Google’s attitude is 180 degrees away from Apple’s…. [and] Amazon is the friendly neighbor who will always lend you his electric weed trimmer.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]