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[Selene Scriven <selene.scriven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think U1 was probably ahead of it's time. Canonical need it 
> now, not back then.

I suspect the opposite might be true.  I don't really know, but 
how it looked to me was that U1 came too late, not too early.  
File clouds were cool and profitable for a while, but competition 
grew quickly until it was no longer possible to make money on 
dropbox clones.  Companies then used them as loss leaders but not 
as profit centers.

Plus, U1 and its music store were a bit unreliable.  Stories like 
this were far too common:  Someone would sync their desktop and 
notebook, decide it was storing too much data on the notebook, 
un-sync parts of it from the notebook, then discover a week later 
that the data got "un-synced" from the desktop too -- leaving no 
remaining copies.  Or use it as a backup service, wipe their 
drive to reinstall, then try to restore the backup...  only to 
discover that the "wipe" got synced to the backup copy and the 
data was gone.  It's possible to be a little *too* synchronized.


-- Selene