More rumors have come to light about Apple and the iCloud brand, including DigitalDaily confirming the name acquisition AppleInsider hearing that it’s already being used internally for iOS 5 (and Mac OS X Lion). According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is prepping beta versions of both iOS 5.0 and Mac OS X Lion [...]Apple headed to the iCloud for iOS 5? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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More rumors have come to light about Apple and the iCloud brand, including DigitalDaily confirming the name acquisition AppleInsider hearing that it’s already being used internally for iOS 5 (and Mac OS X Lion).
According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is prepping beta versions of both iOS 5.0 and Mac OS X Lion ahead of its annual developers conference that integrate with a service dubbed “iCloud,” enabling users to sync and store much of the same information they currently can with the company’s existing MobileMe service, such as bookmarks, email, contacts and iCal events.
Would it include media? There have been strings found for a social-esque photo/media stream service, and rumors persist that Apple is entering the streaming music/digital locker space as well. Would you be able to store anything there, like Amazon Cloud Drive, DropBox, or Google Docs? Or would Apple restrict it to iTunes-purchased content only in order to appease the record labels and movie industry?
A lot of questions remain, including price. AppleInsider thinks it could be free and used as a loss-leader to drive further iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Mac sales. While Apple has done “just above break-even” businesses before, like iTunes and the App Store, it’s hard to see them doing anything for “free”. Perhaps, like Find My iPhone for MobileMe recently, there will be a base of free services and a set of paid, premium services on top of them (the Google or DropBox model).
[AppleInsider and Digital Daily]
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