It is good, but I am not sure if it is that great if it keeps coming from the same behemoth. Microsoft had that kind of monopoly on the desk top and quite literally held back a lot of things that people are still reeling from to this day. Google's attempt to hog every conceivable niche that comes up using its large user base might be trending in the same direction Microsoft took things on the desk top - smother all promising start-ups.
I also don't like the cloud hype that much. Its a solution to a manufactured problem. The one good thing Safcom can do is a web-service to MPESA, end of story.
Njamlik wrote:Termie,
Google was way ahead of Facebook, which was way behind MySpace, KinkedIn and others that have shrunk. I think that the target this time is iTunes and Google might make it if it can avoid Apple's control-freak tendencies. Competition is good!
Cloud computing is for those with clouded judgement. Why would one run an app on-line or store precious data in somebody else's server? Safaricon is now touting it in Kenya as the next big thing. Gullible consumers and companies will actually sign on, to be typing docs, creating databases and manipulating graphics on slooooooooow, unstable connections.
NJL