Crap... for now now iTunes music syncing over the iCloud for Canucks. Expected that with licensing issues.
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Apple Introduces iCloud: Contact, Cal, Docs, Photos, and Music Syncing Free of Charge
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There hasn't been a new iWeb release in quite some time. So I would consider this all but dead. There is rapid weaver in the app store which is pretty solid. Also I recommend squarespace. (great hosting, great software). It's what iWeb + MobileMe should've been.
Also your @mac email address will continue to function as it has.
I heard some more information about iCloud today that makes me feel much more comfortable with the service. Can anyone confirm?
My purchase history from iTunes is available on my iphone, much like my archive history is available on my Amazon kindle, and I choose what I wish to download to the iphone. No streaming available. If I purchase music on another device, it syncs it to the iPhone automatically, and if I don't want it there I simply delete it. If I have non-iTunes purchased music, I get it to my iphone through wireless syncing under ios 5.
That the gyst of it?
My purchase history from iTunes is available on my iphone, much like my archive history is available on my Amazon kindle, and I choose what I wish to download to the iphone. No streaming available. If I purchase music on another device, it syncs it to the iPhone automatically, and if I don't want it there I simply delete it. If I have non-iTunes purchased music, I get it to my iphone through wireless syncing under ios 5.
That the gyst of it?
I'm very curious how our Apple ID will work with iCloud. Everyone who signs up for iCloud gets an @me.com e-mail address. Will this replace the e-mail we currently use as our Apple ID? Or, we will continue to sign-in and download Applications under our old e-mail's, and have the @me.com solely as an extra e-mail.
we will continue to sign-in and download Applications under our old e-mail's, and have the @me.com solely as an extra e-mail
^^ That one.
Got to cut the cord at some point. Otherwise, you are just Microsoft with backwards compatibility bloat.
No one is holding a gun to your head. It's a simple slider, "want to use iCloud? yes-no"
Lala Customers & iTunes iCloud Service?
Are Lala customers "grandfathered in" to the new iTunes in the cloud feature of iCloud? Since Apple & Lala merged, are Lala's former customers now part of the iTunes customer list? Will they be included in the iTunes iCloud service or will they have to use the iTunes Match service & $25/year fee? If Apple aquired their customers, they should included as part of the total iTunes Store customers list.
What is Apple's stance on this matter?
Are Lala customers "grandfathered in" to the new iTunes in the cloud feature of iCloud? Since Apple & Lala merged, are Lala's former customers now part of the iTunes customer list? Will they be included in the iTunes iCloud service or will they have to use the iTunes Match service & $25/year fee? If Apple aquired their customers, they should included as part of the total iTunes Store customers list.
What is Apple's stance on this matter?
I presume an iCloud is much more difficult to hack then my Mac so I'm cool with iClou
I have the following:
iMac, iPhone, iPad and MBPro. I keep everything in Sync but the MBP which also runs Windows7.
Am I correct in understanding that I would no longer have to sync each hardware device? Is my computer and other devices simply a box that is accessing Apple's iCloud network?
Will I have to pay for each device ($25)?
I have the following:
iMac, iPhone, iPad and MBPro. I keep everything in Sync but the MBP which also runs Windows7.
Am I correct in understanding that I would no longer have to sync each hardware device? Is my computer and other devices simply a box that is accessing Apple's iCloud network?
Will I have to pay for each device ($25)?
Go to http://www.apple.com to get more info & watch Keynote WWDC presentation. iCloud service is free & yes you will not have to sync all of your devices as iCloud does this automatically for you. $25/year fee is only if you are using iTunes Match service for non-iTunes Music Store music purchases. IF you are using that service, then it will be $25/year flat fee for all your non-iTunes music which can be on up to TEN devices.
I would argue that Apple and the copyright holders created the problem.
In order to use the Apple store legally, you can only use the store of the country you currently reside in. Check the 62 page agreement you ignored
Therefore people who move countries (me included) end up with multiple iTunes accounts in different stores.
If iCloud syncing is to be a system where all your music, apps, calendars, contacts, photos etc. are copied or restored to your devices with the minimum of fuss, Apple needs a way of associating one iCloud account with multiple Apple IDs. As soon as only some of your data is copied the whole iCloud idea breaks down. I realise that it's not an overly common situation, but I bet it's not that rare either.
Isn't this Apple's way of getting you addicted to an app the way many photographers are addicted to Aperture? (And when I say "addicted" I mean committed to or stuck with.) I mean, I love Aperture, and I don't mind that it manages my library, but it would be hard for me to export all of my RAW photos in RAW format with all applied changes intact without exporting them to JPEGs or some other non "working" format (whatever you call it when all changes are locked in and the file can't easily be edited anymore). Now I am concerned that the only way to retain all the meta information about my docs-in-progress is to keep them in the managed file system of Pages, say, or I would have to export docs that would lose their versioning or change-tracking data. If I did export a file to Word format, for example, it would be editable, but I think it would lose all version history data, wouldn't it? And of course if I went back and forth between exporting to Word and back to Pages, we all know that documents in the two programs don't really look the same. So it seems that letting Apple manage my filesystem for me is locking me into using their apps exclusively, no?
I'm not keen on this idea at all. We've seen Sony hacked, Sega hacked with lots of user data stolen and that's just logins and credit card info. I don't like the idea of somebody else being responsible for looking after my data, particularly when that system represents such a juicy target for hackers. It only takes one security flaw and you've got serious issues. Count me out.
Where does it state it is limited to 5 devices?
It says it will sync to ALL your devices, as long as they are logging into your iTunes account you will get the content. It might have the 5 COMPUTER limit still, but iPad, iPhones, iPod don't count to that limit.