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Apple reveals iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud

That's what I'm most afraid of. I don't really wanna just get an iPhone 4x, I want the iPhone 5! But, I'd hate to wait yet one more year. Ah well, you can't have everything you want.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Apparently no iDisk or anything like that. So the rumored DropBox killer...not there.
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I have a feeling that Apple is engaged in a bidding war with Google for Dropbox. I'm absolutely certain that the company will be acquired at some point this calendar year.

Both Apple and Google have failings in similar areas (i.e. their efforts at social suck out loud; they were both slow to really grasp the potential scope -- and the attendant needs -- of cloud computing), and both of them need a game-changer like Dropbox. It wouldn't have been that difficult to put Dropbox-esque functionality into iCloud, which makes me think that there are some advanced-level negotiations, as well as plans to make the service available to all users of iTunes (since we all know that one of Apple's goals is to have iTunes become the one-stop hub for users' digital media).
 
I will still need DropBox for its 1Password integration. Plus there are some other files I have which don't fall under anything else iCloud backs up.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Apparently no iDisk or anything like that. So the rumored DropBox killer...not there.
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I'm gonna keep using Dropbox 'cause it does some different stuff, but 5 GB of iCloud storage will be great for the stuff it does do (Pages sync, photo-rolls, etc.)

So, useful, but yeah, it's not a Dropbox killer by any stretch.

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And as for the music sharing...for god's sake, people. It's just a new feature of the iTunes music store. IF you buy from the store it downloads everywhere at once. Nice.

If you don't buy from the store then your life hasn't really changed, has it? I'm probably not gonna use the feature much, but why should I care that it's out there? I don't want it so I won't use it. End of story. It's not some evil plot.
 
I'm still wondering if iCloud will sync Safari bookmarks like MobileMe used to do.

I also don't know if the "5GB" of storage refers to a separate, iDisk- or DropBox-like volume that one can use as one wishes, or if it strictly refers to the space Apple allows for backing up predetermined items like contacts, calendars and all that.
 
Chaos Descending said:
That's what I'm most afraid of. I don't really wanna just get an iPhone 4x, I want the iPhone 5! But, I'd hate to wait yet one more year. Ah well, you can't have everything you want.
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You could go with an average Android phone, and have everything you'd want now and always.....
 
Dropbox is ok but it starts to get pricy once you have a lot of documents - I tend to use it in conjunction with google docs. So I use Dropbox for live stuff I need to work with and google docs for archiving stuff that is not live.
 
It seems like it automatically syncs and pushes stuff. I don’t want ALL of my songs/photos/etc on EVERY device I own. I want to be able to control what is on what. I’m not seeing that this is possible on iCloud. Maybe it is, but so far they’re pushing this total access thing.
 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/5110846/iCloud-legitimises-music-pirates

Apple's new cloud music service has been criticised by sections of the music industry for encouraging piracy by allowing people to essentially legitimise their pirated music collections.
Apple announced iCloud, which will allow people to store their songs, calendar entries and other files on Apple's servers and have this content readily accessible over the air on Apple devices including the iPhone and iPad.
But alongside it is a new tool called iTunes Match, which has been dubbed by some as a "music pirate amnesty" and others as a way of bringing pirates into the legal music store fold.
The $US24.95 a year service scans users' hard drives for music, including files obtained illegally, and matches them with the authorised tracks in Apple's iTunes library.
It then makes a quality iTunes version of the tracks automatically accessible in the iCloud.
iTunes Match will initially be only available to US users but it is understood Apple is working on signing licences to enable it to launch in other territories.
Michael Speck, who ran the music industry's landmark court case against file sharing network Kazaa and is now working on technologies to reduce piracy, said Apple was "no better than the old p2p pirates".
"If you can store all your pirate content you won't need to buy content will you?" said Speck of iTunes Match.
"Let me put it this way: if you can legally park your stolen car in my garage will you rush out and actually pay for your own car?"
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propita said:
It seems like it automatically syncs and pushes stuff. I don’t want ALL of my songs/photos/etc on EVERY device I own. I want to be able to control what is on what. I’m not seeing that this is possible on iCloud. Maybe it is, but so far they’re pushing this total access thing.
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Candlelight said:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/5110846/iCloud-legitimises-music-pirates

Apple's new cloud music service has been criticised by sections of the music industry for encouraging piracy by allowing people to essentially legitimise their pirated music collections.
Apple announced iCloud, which will allow people to store their songs, calendar entries and other files on Apple's servers and have this content readily accessible over the air on Apple devices including the iPhone and iPad.
But alongside it is a new tool called iTunes Match, which has been dubbed by some as a "music pirate amnesty" and others as a way of bringing pirates into the legal music store fold.
The $US24.95 a year service scans users' hard drives for music, including files obtained illegally, and matches them with the authorised tracks in Apple's iTunes library.
It then makes a quality iTunes version of the tracks automatically accessible in the iCloud.
iTunes Match will initially be only available to US users but it is understood Apple is working on signing licences to enable it to launch in other territories.
Michael Speck, who ran the music industry's landmark court case against file sharing network Kazaa and is now working on technologies to reduce piracy, said Apple was "no better than the old p2p pirates".
"If you can store all your pirate content you won't need to buy content will you?" said Speck of iTunes Match.
"Let me put it this way: if you can legally park your stolen car in my garage will you rush out and actually pay for your own car?"
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And the music industry are a bunch of lying fuckers with zero credibility and anyone's who's followed their antics would know how despicable and deceitful they are.
 
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