Apple iCloud: How vs What
"The demos look good, the iCloud technical sessions at the WWDC went well. But the full-scale implementation remains to be field-tested. For the document editing example, Apple used an iPad to iPhone and back example, and merely mentioned the Mac as a participant later in the presentation. Annoying details such as iWork file format incompatibilities between Macs and iDevices need closer inspection as they might make reality a little less pristine than the theory.
For developers, the new APIs just released will enable more applications to offer the seamless multi-device updates just demonstrated.
If iCloud works as represented, it will be very competitive – and the price is right: free for the first 5Gb of documents. (Content such as music or video and apps don't count in those 5Gb.)"
via guardian.co.uk · Cloud computing
Jean-Louis Gassée (mondaynote.com: What I want for my Mac):
"I thought that’s why we have Apple, the non-IT company that caters to The Rest of Us, but, unfortunately, its Cloud services are messy, unpredictable, and filled with rigid silos. The Apple Cloud is supposed to smooth the seams of synchronization but fails to do so because information isn’t properly shared between its various functions."
via mondaynote.com
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