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I too scoffed at the concept at one time. These low-cost machines are, essentially, hardware built around a Web browser – specifically, Google’s Chrome browser – and little more. But Jobs wasn’t alone in seeing this future for computing, and since 2009 Google has offered its own take in the form of Chrome OS, running on laptops collectively known as Chromebooks. And none of that is on a local hard disk.Īt the time, Jobs was talking about NeXT hardware running NeXTSTEP, and Michael suggested that iCloud is the modern day incarnation of Jobs’s vision from Apple. I walk up to any of them and log in as myself, it goes over the network, finds my home directory on the server, and I’ve got my stuff wherever I am.

I have computers at Apple, at NeXT, at Pixar, and at home. Why? As Michael Cohen pointed out in “ iCloud: The Anti-Social Network” (6 February 2014), part of Steve Jobs’s vision of the future of computing when he returned to Apple in 1997 was a thin-client, network-enabled system that separates your data from your computer. I mentioned briefly in that piece that I’ve also tested a variety of Chromebooks for my work as a technology journalist, and while they don’t quite match the iPad Air for this mobile writer, they are nonetheless compelling for me and for others who need simplified gear for mobile productivity. In the first installment in this informal series, I looked at how the iPad Air makes for top-notch tech for the roving reporter (see “ iPad Versus MacBook for the Mobile Writer,” 17 February 2014).