I don't know. I'm not really a cloud advocate but I do like the idea of having access to my data everywhere and not having to worry about my own personal server going down. That's a killer feature for me. So if you want to talk me into a home server and desktop apps you have to be able to do something impressive that a cloud soution can't.<p>I don't see that here. Moreover, the tone of the "pro" part of this piece really turned me off. I won't blame the company because I don't know who chose the tone but to me this was fear mongering to sell a product (and for the record the one seems to be emulating their website). "All these evil big companies shouldn't have control of your data so you should fear them and run your own server"<p>Well, I don't fear the power of one company's cloud. If they abuse me I'll just move to another. Beyond that I'm an IT manager so I know servers occasionally go down and at home I don't want to deal with that.<p>Again, I'm open to desktop apps and local servers. But they have to use the power a local soultion provides to impress me. This doesn't seem to do anything a cloud solution couldn't and that makes it a no-go for me.
I can't believe they have this, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E072dWriCBw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E072dWriCBw</a> YouTube video on their site promoting their product. It's a little over the top and I have to think it would turn a lot of people off to the product regardless of it's merit.
Tom, Ultimately the power and usability of applications win. Why don't you give it a try. promise you it will be worth your time. The underpinning of Tonido is control of data. Even we have plans to offer Tonido on your own VPS.We just provide an alternative to cloud . Thats it. we don't hate or fear cloud services