iCloud is a cloud computing service from Apple Inc. It’s a hugely enhanced version of Apple’s $100-a-year, problem-plagued MobileMe service. But iCloud is free — and far more ambitious.
iCould stores your music, photos, apps, calendars , documents and more. And wirelessly pushes them to all your devices automatically. You can buy any of the above contents and all these are synched with all of your devices.
It still syncs your e-mail, address book and calendars among your iDevices, Macs, PCs and the Web. But it also syncs your bookmarks, iBooks, app purchases, song purchases and photos among all of them. Your iPhone gets backed up automatically over Wi-Fi each day. Take a photo with your iPhone, and it shows up automatically on your computer and iPad.
When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. And that’s plenty of room, because of the way iCloud stores your content. Your purchased music, apps, and books, as well as your Photo Stream, don’t count against your free storage. That leaves your mail, documents, Camera Roll, account information, settings, and other app data. And since those things don’t use as much space, you’ll find that 5GB goes a long way.
But if you’re willing to spend $25 a year, you can sign up for iTunes Match, a service that compares your non-Apple music collection — tracks ripped from CDs, for example, or tracks acquired from other services — with the iTunes catalog. Any time there’s a match with Apple’s inventory of more than 18 million songs, you get all the benefits of the iCloud music feature applied to your own, non-iTunes music collection (and they’re upgraded to a high-quality format).
Now, disclaimer time: this isn’t a review. I haven’t tried any of these stuffs. This is just a summary of Apple’s announcements.
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