Andy nails perfectly the beauty of Dropbox.

It’s a simple idea with far-reaching consequences. I can make some changes to this column here on my desktop, grab my netbook from the living-room sofa where I left it, and flee the house. If I want to keep working on it some more on the train into town, I won’t need WiFi: by the time I got up from my office chair, the file had already been updated to the netbook’s hard drive. That’s often the failure point of cloud storage, or worse, services that encourage you to use webapps for productivity. No access to the Internet means no access to your files. Not so with Dropbox.

Dropbox is hands down the best cloud computing tool I’ve ever used.

Thoughts on what an Apple tablet should be – or not | via Chicago Sun-Times

Before we get all misty-eyed here about Apple as a company with an unblemished track record for insight and innovation, I should leave you with the words “Apple TV.”

Apple was quick out the door with a box that plugs into your HDTV and streams content from your media library. Apple released it three years ago and its done little but displace air (mostly on shelves at Apple Stores) every since. The Apple Tablet could be a repeat of the same mistakes. The operative mistake of the AppleTV seems to have been to design a box that’s ideally suited towards serving up all of the media you have, as opposed to being thought of as a box that can deliver all of the media there is.