Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Apple Unveils iCloud



Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, introduced the company's newest product, iCloud, capitalize on the latest trend in cloud computing. iCloud a music store that stores music and wirelessly synchronize with other devices. iCloud will allow users to break away from their computer hard drives and move to a special music vault created by Apple. Apple unveiled this latest project, calling it the biggest seller of music, where users can access their existing music store via iCloud for $ 25 a year. Jobs introduced iCloud saying the user should be able to buy a song and move it in all your other devices with convenience.

So far, Apple iOS products have played a dominant role in smartphone industry, ahead of Google Android. Apple hopes to iCloud play a similar role in helping to cement its dominance over competitors such as Amazon and Google. Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett says that iCloud will ensure users have access to their content on various Apple devices, which means that fewer customers will be defecting to the rival company. Gillett also said that in this new day and age, people do not have time to wonder what each gadget contains. As users organize their content across Apple gadget ecosystem and create a personal, it will become difficult to move away to another service.

Apple conference marked the second public appearance by Steve Jobs in 2011. Steve Jobs attended the conference from a medical absence and is known to cope with a rare form of cancer that struck him in 2004. Jobs, however, remains actively involved in all decision-making at Apple. iTunes Music Match is the latest feature from Apple, which will scan the users of libraries for each track and respond to iCloud. This means that users do not have to waste time loading your songs by song iCloud.

iCloud will feature as a free download this fall. Apple will announce new IOS operating system, which will involve five gigabytes of free space to store files, books, purchased applications, and even recent photos. iOS will run on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, where the user would not be necessary to connect the devices. All files and applications will be synchronized wirelessly.

Apple's software also includes other new features. There is a notification system in which users will be informed each time when you receive text messages and other updates from social media networks such as Facebook. This is also suitable for users who want to watch the web-articles and store them for later reading. In the meantime, the new partnership will allow Twitter users to your photographs and access to social networking sites. While Mr. Jobs is the discovery iCloud in San Francisco, executives from Microsoft Corp. have been presenting their new game in Los Angeles.

What is encouraging about Apple's newest service is that when consumers buy a product from Apple they were lucky to end up getting a few others. $ 25 annual fee will be split between Apple and record companies, with Apple receiving 30% and music companies that receive 70 %.

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