What is iCloud?

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The Apple iCloud was announced on 6th June 2011. The Apple iCloud stores all of the most important things that you carry with you including music, apps, photos, calendars, documents and more. The iCloud stores them in the sky so that you can access them from any device that works with iCloud, so your Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod.

iCloud manages your content

The iCloud manages all of your data for you so all you have to do is use it. When you want it the iCloud will push data from the sky to your device. You won’t have to duplicate the data that you want on your devices by continuously syncing with your computer, the iCloud will serve your data from one place.

Intelligent iCloud

The iCloud is not like carrying a hard drive around in your pocket, it is much more intelligent than that. The iCloud serves you 24/7 and delivers what you want from it at any time without you doing anything. The iCloud syncs with all of your devices so that you never have to worry about copying data from one device to another. All of your data is the same on each of your devices, you don’t have to do a thing. If  you’re on your Mac and you enter a new calendar entry, it will show up on your iPhone that is collecting data from your iCloud.

Shaping the future

Apple are hoping that the iCloud is revolutionary way of delivering and managing content for users. The way we manage the content on our devices will be defined by this technology. From iTunes to Photo streams to  Books and more, adding to the iCloud will deliver your data across your device range allowing you to use them easier and have all your data at any one time on any device.

When will the iCloud launch?

The iCloud will be available to US users in Autumn 2011 so around September time. It is not sure when the iCloud will be available to other countries due to copyright talks but other countries will follow suit shortly after the US have the service.