ahmshaegar :
Remember, businesses account for a larger share of the PC market all gamers combined... easily. (unless someone here happens to run a Fortune 500 business? In which case, I stand corrected.)
I don't mean to insult you or anyone else here, but please don't dismiss any ideas too quickly. You gotta take some risks if you want to get rich. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
I'm not a Fortune 500 business, but I run multiple computers and drop in here at Tom's while other programs are crunching numbers, doing research, or whatever. I also have a gaming computer for the relaxing time.
I see three potential probems with this "cloud computing". First is identity theft. Maybe no one here worries about it, and I know it happens as it is, but this would make it all that much easier. The more you put out on the net and in other people's hands, the more vulnerable you become.
Second is the potential loss of your data, games, etc. As an example, a friend of mine uses AOL. Recently, AOL updated its programing and lost all his contact information, e-mails, and a few other things. Its gone forever. What do you do if you have no hard drive, for back-ups if nothing else, but are trusting everything to another company and the other company looses everything? Of course, with the proposed "cloud computing" you don't have a CD/DVD drive so you can't even load anything either. So those pictures that you or some relative took on vacation or whatever can't be loaded onto the cloud drive.
A third problem, and I'm sure it covers at least some people in this forum, is that their surfing of porn would no longer be a semi-private thing. Everything done would be readily seen and known by anyone tapping into the cloud computer. You say you don't care? Ok, for those using pirated copies of games, such thing would be part of the past. How do you pirate something that is only available on the net, and thus can be obtained only by paying for it?
One further thing. If I decide that I don't want to be on the net for any reason, I can presently take my computer and do whatever I want with it, play games, run business apps, whatever, without any connection whatsoever. On a cloud computer, it would only be useful if it was connected to the net. Did a hurricane, tornado, fire, flood, or something else interupt the net connection? On my present computer, as long as I have electricity, it doesn't matter. On a cloud computer, forget it. No net, no computer.