Imagine you’re on a fishing trip and you just snapped a shot of the the one that didn’t get away on your iPhone. Before you can even get to shore, your picture is already at home.
Steve Jobs told a crowd of about 5,200 attendees at the World Wide Development Conference the same thing. He spoke about iCloud, the newest software launching in the Fall for Apple. Jobs’s promising presentation showed the revolutionary way your digital life can be managed in the “cloud”.
The iCloud idea is very simple. Take a picture, and it is automatically pushed to your other Apple devices. That iTunes purchase you made on your iPad will no longer have to be synced to your computer with a cord.
Be it on your Mac, iPhone or iPad, you can transfer your documents across all your devices effortlessly, without ever attaching a cord to your device.
The way it works seems simple. If you have a file or document that you want on all your devices but can never find time to actually move it manually, iCloud could become useful for you. The file is sent to your personal iCloud storage (up to 5Gigabytes free of charge) and then is pushed to your devices via Wi-Fi or 3G.
The logic behind it all is that we don’t need the PC as our anchor for file management and organization. The PC has been the “digital hub” of your digital life, Jobs explains.
For the better part of 10 years, it has worked. Now Apple seems to be making that “hub” in the “cloud”. Anchoring to the PC as the place to keep track of music, pictures and everything else was the best route 10 years ago. Now, Apple is pushing to make this storage and organization easier by developing iCloud.
With every Apple device capable of communicating with the “cloud” via Wi-Fi or 3G, this could be one of the easiest ways to organize, share and work with your personal files.
iCloud’s compatibility across all devices is easy and thoughtless on part of the user, as shown in Apple’s marketing for iCloud.
One of the strongest points of iCloud’s presentation was “Documents in the Cloud.” With iCloud, you can work on a project in Microsoft’s PowerPoint/Apple’s Keynotes, an essay in Word/ Pages and have the same documents on all your other devices, all without leaving your sofa to sync your iPhone, iPad or your Mac. The “cloud’s” capabilities look to make working with your documents much simpler andmore organized.
iCloud boasts a slew of new things for Apple users, but it may not end there. The software may also work for PC users with certain applications, says Jobs. There are only a few applications with iCloud that are advertised to be capable of working with PC, but it could be open to change.
Whether you’re a fishermen taking a picture of the catch, a designer who’s transfering artwork from device to device or a businessman who’s working on a Powerpoint for that big meeting, iCloud could make moving your files for work or play an easier and thoughtless process.
