What is Apple's iCloud?
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Apple's cloud storage product called iCloud was announced at the world wide developers conference in June and it's expected to roll out to users in the fall when the new, iOS5 is launched. iCloud is a virtual storage space where Apple users can store their music, photos, applications, calendars and documents in the cloud, and wirelessly push them to their devices synchronizing the content automatically.
You can think of the metaphor of iCloud being a hard drive in the sky, where you can synchronize devices wirelessly and have the data available to you wherever you are, as long as you have Internet access. This service will be quite useful for apples 5.1 million iPhone users and 1.3 million Mac OS users.
Currently, users plug their devices in to their laptop or desktop computer with an eye USB connection to synchronize their photos, videos. Contact information applications etc., but now that can all be done over the air quickly and easily. So if you have an iPhone, an iPad, and laptop at home and a desktop at work you can now manage and synchronize all of your data so that everything is up to date across all of the different devices.
When iOS5 is launched in the fall, Apple users will update their iPhones and iPads to the new firmware and then the apps that they have already installed will become seamlessly integrated with iCloud. Users will be able to access their iTunes, photos stream, documents, allowing them to view and edit the same version of a document regardless of which device they are looking at it on, all the stored content on their iPhone and other devices such as apps e-books and audio will be stored and accessible whenever you need it. All of your contacts, calendar and mail will live in the cloud and you can access it and synchronize it automatically in real time with your devices.
With the popularity of mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, and iPod, people take their technology with them wherever they go allowing them to work and play and stay up to date with everything that is going on in their world in real time. Cloud storage helps support that emerging digital nomad lifestyle where users can no longer stand being tethered to their laptop or desktop by a USB connection. In the same way that they can download the newest music or podcasts to their mobile devices, now they can sync all of their data automatically.
With iCloud, Apple has positioned the cloud as the central hub where users will store and sync their data while still maintaining local control of their data on their own devices.
On the Apple website they are saying that when you sign up for I cloud you'll get 5GB of free storage for your content. There isn't much detail about what the prices will be or how the billing structure will work. For those who need more than 5GB of storage.
For more information about cloud storage and other tips and strategies for growing your online business, visit, http://mcreasite.com/blog.
You can think of the metaphor of iCloud being a hard drive in the sky, where you can synchronize devices wirelessly and have the data available to you wherever you are, as long as you have Internet access. This service will be quite useful for apples 5.1 million iPhone users and 1.3 million Mac OS users.
Currently, users plug their devices in to their laptop or desktop computer with an eye USB connection to synchronize their photos, videos. Contact information applications etc., but now that can all be done over the air quickly and easily. So if you have an iPhone, an iPad, and laptop at home and a desktop at work you can now manage and synchronize all of your data so that everything is up to date across all of the different devices.
When iOS5 is launched in the fall, Apple users will update their iPhones and iPads to the new firmware and then the apps that they have already installed will become seamlessly integrated with iCloud. Users will be able to access their iTunes, photos stream, documents, allowing them to view and edit the same version of a document regardless of which device they are looking at it on, all the stored content on their iPhone and other devices such as apps e-books and audio will be stored and accessible whenever you need it. All of your contacts, calendar and mail will live in the cloud and you can access it and synchronize it automatically in real time with your devices.
With the popularity of mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, and iPod, people take their technology with them wherever they go allowing them to work and play and stay up to date with everything that is going on in their world in real time. Cloud storage helps support that emerging digital nomad lifestyle where users can no longer stand being tethered to their laptop or desktop by a USB connection. In the same way that they can download the newest music or podcasts to their mobile devices, now they can sync all of their data automatically.
With iCloud, Apple has positioned the cloud as the central hub where users will store and sync their data while still maintaining local control of their data on their own devices.
On the Apple website they are saying that when you sign up for I cloud you'll get 5GB of free storage for your content. There isn't much detail about what the prices will be or how the billing structure will work. For those who need more than 5GB of storage.
For more information about cloud storage and other tips and strategies for growing your online business, visit, http://mcreasite.com/blog.