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Don't expect everyone to agree. My opinions are mine and computing power is not a concern for me. I will adjust my equipment according to what technology throws at me, besides the at things are moving, we won't need all that power in your home, cloud computing is your answer. Companies like Dropbox are swiftly integrating to multiple cloud tools. In no time you will have someone integrating with Adobe cloud and AWS and then people will follow suit. Tools like Dropbox will start making apps for WiFi enabled cameras like the a7 and then you have fuller richer system that moves files for you and makes them avaliable to cloud computing services for editing through a browser. Sony will do the same and make their tools available online to deal with the raw files. Furthermore the tools will be constantly updated and they will improve those tools with time, Sony will be able to fix shortcomings with the camera hardware lenses and bodiea through their online raw codecs and tools right at import. The problem is that you guys are thinking in the "now". Look at all the angles guys.
I think the days of a thin client photo editing app across the WAN with the file sizes we are talking about are a so far in the future as to be irrelevant to a camera choice made today.
Combining that with the obvious drawback of having to have a web connection at all times to even start the thin client app and it's unlikely to be a mainstream solution in the next 10 years and IMO will probably never be a mainstream solution.
As internet speeds go up and storage costs go down I would expect a shift to large NAS solutions in home, and back away from the gimmick of 'the cloud'
Once the proper infrastructure is standard at all the endpoints (homes/businesses etc) then the cloud solution offers no real benefits to a consumer anymore, it's just a bridging product so that people can have things connected now with minimal costs.