Tag: icloud

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Check out Justin Lee’s keypoint summary of the keynote or just refer to Apple’s iCloud page or the features page for their info about iCloud.

Brief Show Notes

• What is cloud?
  • Save once. Uploaded and Distributed ‘everywhere’ (i.e. all your devices)
• 9 uses:
  1. Contacts
  2. Calendar
  3. Mail
  4. Apps Store
  5. iBooks
  6. Backup
     • Daily wifi backups
     • Music / Apps / Books
     • Camera Roll
     • Device Settings
     • App Data
  7. Docs
  8. Photos
  9. iTunes
• 1,2,3,7) Contacts / Calendar / Mail / Docs:
  • similar to Android and Google or Exchange
  • change once, push everywhere (locally stored vs cloud stored for Google for docs at least)
  • Google at least can access from web. Apple to find out
• 4,5,9) Apps / iBooks / iTunes
  • Buy once, deploy everywhere or look through purchase history. click to download
• 6) Daily cloud backup (huge I think. I agree. Google could have done this for Android but doesnt. I want to rant about Android here haha.)
• 8) Photo stream
  • Syncs photos taken anywhere to all attached devices
    • iOS Devices
    • PCs
    • Apple TV
  • Like Eye-Fi. kind of but requires Internet. Eye-Fi can be local transfer to PC.
  • 1000 photos stored on the device (to save permanently to device, move pic to album)
  • 30 Days limit for all shots on cloud
  • Photos all on PC all saved (iPhoto integeration?)
  • I think this kind of functionality is useful for photographers. I’m suprised not a lot of Bruniean photographers use Eye-Fis.
• 7) Documents in Cloud / iCloud API (There could be an actual iDisk like thing for normal documents?)
  • iCloud API: Looks like dropbox but seems to be like it’s centered on sandboxes per app basis?
  • Obvious ones are things like Pages and Keynote
  • Being able to sync settings for apps.
    • Game saves
    • To have something like Kindle’s Book resume thing.
    • Hopefully alternative browsers can setup something like Google Sync. Syncs my tabs and bookmarks. Please make this happen.
• Similar to other exiting services:
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Dropbox + Google Docs/Calendar/Contacts/Picasa Web/Music
  • Amazon music
  • For Brunei context music and videos / movies not available (yet?) for Google / Amazon offering without using complex work arounds. Easiest option is iTunes.
• Possible Issues:
  • Will there be sharing? Or only to personal account?
  • Data caps / be sure not to use all your data quota and end up paying
  • Do we get offline backup?
  • All your data, are belong to fruit
• 5GB storage space (unsure which files are categorized in the 5GB, but music / photos not included in the quota)
• Free, No ads
• Available in the Fall (most likely September) but some features available now with iTunes update on Mac/PC or App Store update on iDevices