I'm wondering why they seem to have gone relatively light on the Honda FCX, but denigrated the Telsa with what looked to be willful misrepresentations (the whole '13-hour charge' thing)?
Nothing wrong with that at all - that actually sounds really reasonable. Is anybody doing this? I'm getting to the point where I'd pay for most of the stuff that I'm getting for free now - if I had some sort of contract that would give me some recourse in case things go awry.
I've been thinking about this lately - about giving all of your data to a third party and hoping they don't go out of business or erase your account (for whatever reason).
Issues of software freedom aside, I think the key to making people trust the cloud is to make the data contained in the services more transitive. Essentially, creating a standard Import/Export for the web. i.e. - If I decide to switch to vimeo for my web video needs, I'd like to be able to import all of my videos from youtube without much fuss (or make a local backup). That's not a great example, but it's the general idea.
Hmmm...after I think about it, this pretty much boils down to: "let me get at my data in a format that I can read."
Just curious: what exactly do you mean by this? i.e. - how does cloud computing help with web app development?