Analysis of cloud technology in mobile phone industry

Since 2011 Apple released "ICloud", "cloud technology" has become a popular vocabulary, the brand words will be called "cloud", it seems as long as the "cloud" with the relationship, you can keep up with the popular trend, in the user to establish a good image.

However, just as each technology's emergence and development is intended to improve and enhance the user experience, the same goes for cloud technology as mobile internet trends do. Whether the previous and cloud related to the various manufacturers behavior and policy trends, or to Apple at last year's WWDC conference on the icloud, the concept of cloud technology to further popularize the broader user groups, so that the new application of ideas and models for us to launch a new world.

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However, as a new technological trend, different manufacturers and service providers will have different understanding of this, in the industry has not yet formed a standard before, everyone according to their own understanding of the introduction of their own services are also logical. But what is the overall situation? How do you want to present it in front of the user? Are there conflicts or complementarities between different services? All of these questions deserve a good exploration.

1. Under the cumbersome concept, the basic application is clear

If you want to search for detailed information on cloud technology, the resulting content will definitely make everyone who doesn't know the technology feel the same way. In fact, we do not need to know so many proper nouns, only need to know vividly: cloud technology is in their own "local", a set of equipment specifically for us to store or relay a variety of data, We modify the data through different devices, and we can read and use the data on different devices as if the data were in the sky, in the clouds, each of our devices synchronized with the latest data, and all our devices were up-to-date at any time.

Apple icloud Cloud Technology introduction

And especially in the mobile and tablet sectors, the application of cloud technology is more and more full of practical significance the first is in the past, the cell phone storage space is not large, if the data storage "in the cloud", can be the storage space for the machine "burden", to ensure that other necessary data storage, but also for the system to leave enough space.

wired connection is a bit cumbersome to use

The second nature is because the mobile phone connection is relatively cumbersome, to synchronize data with the computer, whether it is wire connection or related drive installation, especially ordinary users churn up will be very painful. Through the way of cloud technology, mobile phone in the environment of wireless network to achieve data transmission and update, save trouble, every mobile phone user presumably will not refuse such convenience.

2. Same service, different ways of implementation

Because of this convenience, this is enough to change the way everyone uses the mobile phone, so whether the mobile phone manufacturers or third-party service providers, in this trend is expected to be able to quickly stand in the forefront of the industry. And in the actual presentation, different manufacturers and service providers have opted for their own route, for example, now we can see that there is a cross equipment third-party cloud technology services, there are only support with the brand, with the system of the use of the cloud technology, they have their own strengths, the focus is different, in many times users can be used with.

Dropbox is an excellent third-party cloud application software

For example, through Third-party services to achieve the partial format of data synchronization. We can use Dropbox, SugarSync and other software to achieve this effect, users can set their own need to share the cloud folders or files, operating more than the cloud applications provided by manufacturers more autonomy, security, privacy is also more secure, while they can also across multiple systems, handheld iOS , Android, Windows and Macs on your computer, all of which are directly compatible with different versions of the software.

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There are also "cloud notes" applications, including Evernote and catch, which support a simpler format and form, but are also necessary for many users.

However, the focus of the industry, is the terminal manufacturers for their products to build cloud technology solutions. The Apple icloud shows us from the address book, calendars to pictures, music, etc., all kinds of content are in the cloud to synchronize the use of the way, itunes even through the cloud services to improve the quality of the music on the computer, and application synchronization allows users to use the same applications on a variety of Apple devices , eliminating the hassle of downloading and sorting. Although Windows can also install icloud, its core is still on Apple's own products.

Similar cloud schemes include Microsoft and Motorola. For future directions such as Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has expanded its past live mesh to enable the icloud of similar contacts, calendars, emails and documents and images to be stored in Microsoft's cloud, providing the most up-to-date data for the user's different devices, Only one account can handle everything.

Other handset manufacturers also launch their own cloud services, such as Motoca "rub transmission"

At the Motorola RAZR conference last November, Motorola's series of cloud services was also described in detail, with the motocast "rub transmission", music, video and pictures can be easily synchronized, so that the PC and mobile phone connection more closely (both Mac and Windows support, Login via Motoblur account.

Under the same concept, through different ways to achieve the same result, the hands of a different product users can choose one or several services to achieve collocation.

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3. Speed and security, restricting the two barriers to cloud technology

No one will deny it, cloud technology can really change our experience in essence, it brings us great convenience, but there are still two real problems in front of us, that is network speed and security, which may become the two barriers to the domestic application of cloud technology for a long time.

Domestic awkward speed, let us see the convenience of the full cloud services and not fluent experience, small file synchronization requires considerable waiting time, GB data cloud synchronization is not the task, so even if many cloud services to provide users with 5GB, 25GB of storage space, but not to the power of the speed, Such capacity is of little value to most users.

Security is another gateway to the spread of cloud technology, and data is stored all over the cloud. Do you really feel comfortable providing you with cloud storage service providers? Are you sure the service provider won't read your data at random? Moreover, domestic not only technical strength can not be compared with foreign countries, security-related laws are not sound, policy also has a lot of variables, which makes it difficult to give important information to cloud technology. In this respect, some manufacturers of their own cloud storage services began to emphasize privacy, Motorola called its own cloud as a "private cloud", intended to reassure users of security concerns, but this is clearly not enough.

This icloud really is "meritorious"

A girl in Nanjing lost an iphone 4S on New Year's Day holiday and was picked up by a woman and photographed on her mobile phone, unexpectedly this iphone is the 5.0.1 system, and the icloud photo streaming function is turned on. Because the person who picks up the cell phone is unwilling to return the mobile phone, so the owner of the computer through the icloud photo stream to get the relevant photos and online. Visible cloud technology is a double-edged sword, sometimes their privacy is easily leaked.

And from this thing can be seen, users in the use of their own "security" also need to play a big question mark in a variety of devices to synchronize data is convenient, but if the equipment lost by someone else to pick up, it will not appear next "Yan Zhao Door." And the way a credit card is directly tied to the Apple App Store, if the device is lost, or if there is a "stolen number", the loss is even more impossible to calculate. Unless there is a practical way to solve security problems, presumably everyone would rather have a bit of trouble and store the data in the local area.

4. Entertainment or business, different understanding brings different choices

But in any case, we now have a choice, our application has been able to jump out of the mobile phone category, and the larger world borders. The difference is that we use cloud technology to deal with what kind of demand, which is what manufacturers are thinking. Including Apple, Motorola, Huawei and other manufacturers want to focus on the application of cloud technology entertainment, the mobile phone as the center of multimedia entertainment equipment or remote control, using mobile phones to connect other devices. The focus on entertainment seems to be a bit less of a security concern for users.

Microsoft SkyDrive Cloud applications running on WP7 phones (images from the web)

On the other hand, Microsoft, Samsung, and other Third-party cloud storage services are focused on business applications, and business activities are most in need of cloud storage to enhance efficiency and facilitate participants. The use of cloud computing can actually solve the problem, but the security problem is also more prominent.

However, even with different understanding of the application in a different direction, we can still choose their own way, these brands and service providers can also be in the future development of the adjustment and implementation of more possibilities, such as the synchronous data based on Google also launched a music service, Motorola's cloud services are also involved in both business and entertainment, Microsoft's Xbox and other entertainment applications, but also to the windows Phone phones in the future of cloud computing more expectations.

Summary：

Cloud technology is the inevitable trend in the future, but now it takes time. Especially as a mobile phone such as the most closely related to the electronic products, mobile phone cloud technology needs to consider more, the future has a long way to go. At present, many applications are gradually exposed, can be the first to try, in the scope of the conditions allowed to a certain extent to facilitate their work and life, which is also interesting and worthwhile to try things.