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Monday, June 20, 2011

Apple Introduces iCloud - What It Means For Media Distribution

I'm sure you are all familiar with a small company known as Apple. In case you didn't know, they are a computer company knwon for their sleek, modern, user-friendly devices like the Apple computer, iPhone, iPod, iPad and the world's largest music seller, iTunes.

From June 6th till June 10th, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was held. Thousands of Apple engineers demonstrate and explain the incredible power of the world’s most advanced operating systems and how our apps are integrated. They even offer workshops where you can learn to create your own apps and games so you can be an iTunes success story one day.

At this specific conference, Apple introduced to the world their latest innovation, iCloud. And of course it’s another word with an ‘i’ in front of it. Very original. But what is it?

To break it down, it’s basically a hard drive in the sky, therefore iCloud. iCloud stores your content so it’s accessible from your iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac or PC.

It keeps your music, apps, photos, e-mail, notes etc up to date across all of your devices. No syncing required, iCloud does it for you. For example, if you buy a song from your iPhone, iCloud will automatically spread it across all of your devices. Same thing goes if you buy a book, app or any other product from iTunes.

Once you sign-up for iCloud, you will get 5GB of storage. With the launch of iCloud, MobileMe & iTools will be replaced. Since MobileMe will be discontinued, iWeb will no longer be in service as well. No word from Apple yet what will happen to current iWeb users but I’m sure their websites will still run, you just won’t be able to create a new one.

iCloud will launch in the fall of 2011 and will include the new IOS 5 update, created for iCloud.

Reference

http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html

http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/about/

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