As an avid Android user, I'm thrilled to see what the next overhaul of Android will hold now that El Goog has its back against the wall once more. The best part of today isn't so much what Apple did, but what Google will have to do in order to keep step. I wasn't quite sold on iCloud only holding Photos for 30 days (why isn't this the same for music and documents?), but I suspect that a few premium options will unfold in due time for heavier users.Īll told, today's announcements weren't so much eye-popping as they were expected, but as with the introduction of copy-and-paste into the iOS universe, these "expected" additions bring iOS up to par with Android in terms of notifications, contacts, etc. Either way, at $25 a year, it's a total steal (iTunes Match, that is), and it'll most certainly serve iOS users well. Put simply, the music aspect of iCloud is exactly what Google Music should've been, and it's hard to imagine what kind of talks went on behind the scenes to make that all come together. No offense to stepchildren, nor red-heads. For starters, it made Google Music look a bit like a red-headed stepchild. We've known it was coming, but Apple seriously pulled a few surprises today. In other words: iCloud as a whole may not make too may Android users jealous, but Google Music is already looking a bit dated, and it's not even out of beta yet.Īh, iCloud. And then there's iTunes in the Cloud, $25 annually and basically a free ticket to turn all your ripped music into legit iTunes files in high-quality and with no DRM. Being able to sync your documents seamlessly across all your devices is hugely attractive, plus photos and contacts and other miscellany, and doing it for free is of course an offer no iOS user will be able to refuse. But regardless of who got there first, Apple's implementation of cloud-awareness in iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion definitely pushes the entire ecosphere forward a big step. So much of the service is functionality already available on other platforms, particularly on Android - if you consider Google Docs and Picasa a part of Android, at least. I had some mixed feelings while watching today's iCloud unveil. Hit the break to see what we thought of Apple's play for cloud storage. well, let's just say it's a heck of a promise and we've got somewhat mixed feelings about how it'll play out. All that processing power in the picture above can't have been cheap, and multiplied by the entirety of those data centers. Today, Steve Jobs revealed a great many things, but the biggest bombshell was this - Apple's iCloud, which promises to sync all your content, automatically, even wirelessly, to Apple's new server farms.
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