Steve Jobs Reveals iCloud at WWDC; How Will It Make Life Easier?
If you own an iPhone, iPad or even an iPod you may want to keep track of the services Apple will provide through its new online service called the iCloud.
For now, the iCloud is garnering much of its reputation as an online music streaming service iPod and iPhone users may chose to use when listening to their vast collection of music.
Traditionally, users had to go through the time-requiring labor of copying music files onto their devices but now with the iCloud, “uploading” will essentially be unnecessary. Thus, in addition to giving users the ability to listen and access their music from anywhere an internet connection is found, (probably Wi-Fi, Mobile network connections not announced yet), the iCloud would stream all the data from gigantic Apple data centers which in return would require no music storage space in the device as long as you don’t choose to store it, of course (hooray for all of those who couldn’t afford to buy the devices with higher HD capacity).
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However, if a user were to own multiple devices and desired to store the same music in each device, they should hear what Steve Jobs had to say when addressing this issue during Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference earlier today. He announced that under the iCloud multiple downloads for the same song to different devices would be free of charge (we’ve been waiting for this quite some time now), “one can bring an already-purchased song to any device; and any new songs come to all devices”. Crowds cheered.
Apple, already the world’s largest music retailer with more than 200 million iTunes users around the world according to the Wall Street Journal, isn’t the first company to launch such cloud centered service. Google and Amazon have previously launched similar services this year and may have had a head start advantage, but the 200 million + iTunes customers Apple possesses will easily blow that difference away once the service that will come out together with the iOS 5(Apple’s mobile operating system) is released this fall.
