A Cloud Thought...
This past week, I had the un-pleasurable task of searching for a new laptop. Now many people enjoy browsing, comparing specifications and prices; while others just want to buy a bloody laptop. Now I am the latter, however when it came to paying, I started wondering about exactly what it is I was paying for.
Then before I knew it, I started comparing, and what should have been a one hour process, has now continued into a week long search and still going. Here I am talking about a product costing around $1000, and yet still I am worried about paying for something I know will be superseded the very next day, and in time I will have to outlay more money to maintain it, just to keep it ‘up-to-date’.
Imagine the thought process for purchasing technology costing in the hundreds of thousands? Spending hundreds and thousands of dollars up front on a product that will be surpassed within a year…
If only there were some way in which we could achieve the benefits of technology and have the most up-to-date software as it comes out, without having to outlay the large amounts of money up front… Now that’s a thought.
- Con Trantis


