Apple iCloud launched
Apple today introduced iCloud – free cloud services that work with applications on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC.
Through iCloud users can automatically and wirelessly store their content in iCloud and push it to all their devices.
When anything changes on one of their devices, all of your devices are wirelessly updated automatically.
“Today it is a real hassle and very frustrating to keep all your information and content up-to-date across all your devices,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.
“iCloud keeps your important information and content up to date across all your devices. All of this happens automatically and wirelessly, and because it’s integrated into our apps you don’t even need to think about it—it all just works.”
iCloud Music
The free iCloud services include the former MobileMe services, the App Store and iBookstore, iCloud Backup, iCloud Storage and iCloud’s Photo Stream service.
The iCloud beta and Cloud Storage APIs are available immediately to iOS and Mac Developer Program members. iCloud will be available this fall concurrent with iOS 5. Users can sign up for iCloud for free on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5 or a Mac running Mac OS X Lion with a valid Apple ID.
iCloud includes 5GB of free cloud storage for Mail, Document Storage and Backup. Purchased music, apps, books and Photo Stream do not count against the storage limit.
iTunes Match, a service that matches a user’s music not purchased through iTunes to the iTunes library and replaces it with a 256 kbps AAC DRM-free version with iCloud benefits will be available for $24.99 per year in the US only.
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