Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is hardly sitting on the fence with his opinions on the cloud

Speaking after a performance of Mike Daisey’s monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”, Steve Wozniak was in uncompromising mood concerning his thoughts on cloud computing.

Wozniak reportedly told the packed theatre audience: “I think [cloud’s] going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years”.

Five years is a long time. According to Gartner, four years is all it will take for a third of consumers’ digital content to end up in the cloud.

Wozniak added: “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. The more we transfer everything onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it”.

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