MVC apps in the personal cloud

As the number of computing devices a user owns increases, the importance of cross-platform deployment and cross-platform experience increases. Instead of the user experience on a specific device, the consistent user experience across multiple devices becomes the key concern. Being able to use cloud services in a location, time and device independent manner results in a novel cloud experience. Unlike the device-centric mobile cloud computing the focus is on a user-centric cloud computing experience called personal cloud. In the personal cloud users are able to access their digital assets and services via apps across multiple devices in a seamless manner. To ensure consistent user experiences across multiple devices, this paper argues for the use of a web-driven MVC pattern and the use of channel-based publish-subscribe.