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Apple Purchases iCloud.com for $4.5 Million?

Michael CM1 said:
The dumbest thing about the whole "cloud" nonsense is most of this crap is stored in huge buildings on, say it with me class, the ground. I'm guessing satellites are used in some form, and a lot of data passes through cell towers that are all of a couple hundred feet off the ground, but none of this crap is anywhere near a cloud.

As someone else said, "cloud" is just some new term for "Internet." Apple came up with Remote Desktop, so I don't get why the word "remote" can't be used. Alas, I'm fighting a losing battle and I know it. iCloud, woo wee!
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Wow! So much misinformation here.

Cloud is not a new term as it was easily being used more than 10 years ago to describe the internet. The earliest use I heard it referred to that was by Cisco but it could have been others.

Also, Apple did not come up with Remote Desktop at least as a buzzword. That goes back much farther. The earliest very popular use of it to me would be Remote Desktop included with Windows XP which was just a year or two before Apple's product but you could go back much farther to where the protocol for Windows Remote Desktop came from at Citrix. It's called RDP for Remote Desktop Protocol. For those who have been around a bit they might even know of products previous to these that went by the name of Remote Desktop. It's a very generic name or Apple and MS couldn't both use it.

As for iCloud though lets not get too excited as not long ago many thought we were going to see iSlates rather than iPads.;)
 
Full of Win said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)

Hats off to Apple, they came up with a name almost as bad as Mobile Me. I did not think they had it in them.
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I just want to say, I love your work. You're like macrumors' own novelty account.
 
gnasher729 said:
Except that doing this will not make you rich, but end up in court.
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Calm down Narc. I was just kidding....I know that domain squatting is illegal. Also, I realize that "Narc" isn't applicable in this context either, I just said it to piss you off...
 
I'm surprised they didn't already own icloud. Cloudme sounds awfully close to mobileme, I don't see why they didn't buy that either?
 
$4,5000,000.00 for a 6 letter word... It says to me that humanity hasn't much hope... Priorities, priorities, priorities... I would have come up with a catchy name for $4.51...
 
hmmmmmm....
 

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Macsterguy said:
$4,5000,000.00 for a 6 letter word... It says to me that humanity hasn't much hope... Priorities, priorities, priorities... I would have come up with a catchy name for $4.51...
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+1. I posted a similar comment, most liked, one guy got pissed for no reason and stated I was "disingenuous." Priorities are way off given the bad state of our world (deleted all the rambling examples, but the one that bothers me the most is my friend Gabbie Giffords who is mentally impaired for life and 5 innocent lives lost after a politician's rhetoric stirred a mad man to kill. even after Giffords pleaded with this politician in March last year to remove it as her office was shot up, and no one is talking about it or the nuclear disaster in Japan, although my friend overseas say Japan and Nuclear power are hot topics). Kinda sad :( (and before anyone gets personal, yes I do a lot, politically and environmentally so I'm not a) a hypocrite or b) trying to make ANYONE feel badly or insult them so forgive me for the rant, just in a bad place)

/end rant and flame away
 
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on Cloudme.com it says, "we are pleased to announce that icloud is now cloudme."
Yea, I bet they are pleased. $4.5million pleased.
But didn't Apple just give a $4.5million infusion to their competition? Pretty bold move. Would be like Walmart building next to a mom and pop store and buying their parking lot for $4.5million. "You won't be needing that anymore".
 
I wish they would hurry up and announce this!


$4,5000,000.00 for a 6 letter word... It says to me that humanity hasn't much hope... Priorities, priorities, priorities... I would have come up with a catchy name for $4.51...
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$4.5m is a drop in the bucket for Apple. Their ROI will be huge.
 
iCloud went to CloudME? What a weird dilemma for Apple. They have "MobileME" and now want iCloud? :eek: :confused:

These two companies don't know whether they're coming or going from one another. :rolleyes:

I want the "iCharmin" name. Sooner or later Apple will realize generic TP is scratchy and irritating and they'll want to move onto softer double-ply. ;)
 
I frankly don't care what it will be called, but iOS devices badly need standardized wireless access to data.

Sharing files via iTunes (Mac and Windows client) is awkward at best, and not all apps support Dropbox and/or MobileMe.

Apple must bake iCloud into iOS API and allow iDisk/Dropbox-like sharing of data between applications over the cloud. And it is imperative that Apple offer some storage capacity for free (if it's paid, it won't become a standard) and allow same data to be accessible to multiple apps.
 
nutmac said:
I frankly don't care what it will be called, but iOS devices badly need standardized wireless access to data.

Sharing files via iTunes (Mac and Windows client) is awkward at best, and not all apps support Dropbox and/or MobileMe.

Apple must bake iCloud into iOS API and allow iDisk/Dropbox-like sharing of data between applications over the cloud. And it is imperative that Apple offer some storage capacity for free (if it's paid, it won't become a standard) and allow same data to be accessible to multiple apps.
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I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I do 100% feel any cloud access has to be fully supported in all Apple apps that load and save files.

There must be no need to any extra apps to manipulate your online content, it must be fully built in and transparent.

The current methods are all clungy that you need to use other apps to move date from other apps to the cloud and visa versa.
 
mobileme=?

I am wondering why they are taking so long to update their mobileme service. At least in austria, you still cannot sign up to the service, but icons and references to the service are cluttered around the whole (SL) operating system.

I still hope they will offer some super-cheap or free entry-level accounts, else i am off...
 
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