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Apple Purchases iCloud.com for $4.5 Million?
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Why are people surprised that Apple uses i in their names? They use it for almost everything.
Why are people surprised that Apple uses i in their names? They use it for almost everything.
The internet is a network. The cloud is a storage system that is available directly to a client or server. It's a distributed computing model...
The term "cloud" as it refers to the WAN is not the same cloud you are hearing about today.
Apple pays them that money, we pay Apple for that. I don't think just getting the name is worth the money.
Agree with this. People will call it that anyway. I can't tell you how many people I know who call either the retail Apple Stores or the iTunes Store "The iStore." If Apple had called the iPad something like "Slate" people would have just called it "the iSlate" or "the iTablet."
trollll time
"I have used apple products I do not think their design philosophy is particularly effective or attractive.......etc, etc, etc"....he writes (assume the poster is a he)..joined the site today, made two posts, both long, preachy, read like PR for the folks he shills for........tho i don't think he's preaching to the right market.
"I have used apple products I do not think their design philosophy is particularly effective or attractive.......etc, etc, etc"....he writes (assume the poster is a he)..joined the site today, made two posts, both long, preachy, read like PR for the folks he shills for........tho i don't think he's preaching to the right market.
And yet again here is more evidence that I need to start buying domain names and selling them to companies...I think I will call the next one ifriend.com and when apple releases a virtual friend in 2020 I will be RICH!!!
Ya never know!
I believe it; all part of the iTunes cloud vision
We all know the 'cloud' is conceptually becoming the center for everything. Naturally, Apple will unveil a massive marketing campaign introducing iTunes in the cloud residing there (my prediction).
Long live the king.
We all know the 'cloud' is conceptually becoming the center for everything. Naturally, Apple will unveil a massive marketing campaign introducing iTunes in the cloud residing there (my prediction).
Long live the king.
I do. MobileMe and the me.com domain both come off as egotistical. If Apple had made me give up my mac.com domain on my addresses I would have changed to a new provider.
Careful, two of them have already gone to the heavens.
You are complaining that you have to buy a system update for $29 that was released two years ago.
Cloud computing in theory is magical - the future of personal storage and DRM software,movies,music for all...
In reality were still a long way from it, not becuase the technology to store all this info at a giant campus doesn't exist, we know it does. But it's a long way off because the vast majority of users around the world still do not have broadband infrastructure of the speeds required for a service to be as functional as local storage / software.
Cloud is just the buzz at the moment, but it's not somthing that is going to see major pay off for Apple for at least a decade whilst telecommunications networks around the world (bar this exceptions already) play catchup and offer users faster connections (more than the 2-3mb overall average globally).
In reality were still a long way from it, not becuase the technology to store all this info at a giant campus doesn't exist, we know it does. But it's a long way off because the vast majority of users around the world still do not have broadband infrastructure of the speeds required for a service to be as functional as local storage / software.
Cloud is just the buzz at the moment, but it's not somthing that is going to see major pay off for Apple for at least a decade whilst telecommunications networks around the world (bar this exceptions already) play catchup and offer users faster connections (more than the 2-3mb overall average globally).
I must have missed the joke one. Does it make farty noises?
Uh-uh-UH.... iGround. Why mess with the formula when it still works? It's part of how they got the mindshare they have today.