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First Look Video of iCloud.com Beta

shurcooL said:
They say Dropbox only gives you 2 GB for free, but that's not really true. You can get up to 8 or 16 GB additional for free, if you send out some referrals. With iCloud, you can't do that.
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• with apple you can get 155GB per year for $100. (includes 5GB free)
•with dropbox you can get 152GB per year for $120.(includes 2GB free)
apple doesn't charge for music, apps, photostream pics against your free 5GB, dropbox does.

your "ad" above, invites people to join, with you as their source, and if you get 12 people to sign up and download it, then, yes, you will personally get additional dropbox space to equal what apple offers for the same price.
(i have used dropbox with no problems for a few years, but not the same benefits at any level.
 
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I'm not sure if I'd like to move my free dropbox to icloud. I'm all about the file strcuture and dropbox does that, right off from finder. Maybe I need to see more of icloud in these months
 
iCal Yellow Skin

Is it just me, or did Apple truly pick the ugliest iCal skin they could find? It looks like the desk blotter in a cheesy western motel. How did this slip past the style gurus in Cupertino? Was everyone with any taste on vacation that month? You're telling me that Steve Jobs actually said "Okay, that iCal skin is hot! Run with it!" Please, please, tell me, they are going to release an assortment of skin options just the way they do for your OS X desktop!
 
Was anyone else able to login, even if you aren't a developer, when the site first launched? It worked for me for about an hour.
 
Looks good, but I do NOT like iOS style notifications. God forbid they ever creep in OSX.
 
monaarts said:
I am planning on paying the $25/yr for 3 reasons. #1, it is more clean with all the correct information and cover art for all the music. #2, it is an upgraded sound for most of my library. #3, if I ever happen to lose all of my music from my mac I can just legally download it all from iTunes again! (HUUUGE plus in my opinion!)


- Joe
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Well said. Same here.
 
writingdevil said:
• with apple you can get 155GB per year for $100. (includes 5GB free)
•with dropbox you can get 152GB per year for $120.(includes 2GB free)
apple doesn't charge for music, apps, photostream pics against your free 5GB, dropbox does.

your "ad" above, invites people to join, with you as their source, and if you get 12 people to sign up and download it, then, yes, you will personally get additional dropbox space to equal what apple offers for the same price.
(i have used dropbox with no problems for a few years, but not the same benefits at any level.
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Is this true? with apple you can get 155GB per year for $100. (includes 5GB free)
I thought for $100/year you get 55GB (not 155)

/Jim
 
I was kinda hoping this iCloud thing meant I could stream my music collection to my phone. Doesn't look like thats gonna be the case.

I miss the iPod days when you could carry your entire collection with you. These days I'd rather sacrifice that, for the sake of only having one device. But it would be nice to have again.
 
Dnix said:
I miss the iPod days when you could carry your entire collection with you. These days I'd rather sacrifice that, for the sake of only having one device. But it would be nice to have again.
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Well, Apple still sells the classic iPod with 160GB of storage, for what it is worth.
 
viperGTS said:
Ok, first of all:
It costs $25 a year, not $100, to store your music in iCloud. Stop being so ignorant.
Secondly, if you have 3 places to put your music, then that's all good. iTunes Match isn't for you. Its meant to make your music iCloud compatible. If you don't find the service to fufill your needs, don't complain about it. No one said you had to get it. :rolleyes:
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Sorry, I was incorrect, I saw the figure of $100 a year for 50 gb's and thought it applied to music not purchased not from itunes. Just got a little confused for a moment
 
Gotta love how so many are willing to jump on the "convienence" of paying apple to rent 100 gigs of space when 2TB can be had for that price, forever minus the convienence.
 
This would have been great a couple of years ago. Today I use gMail, Google Calendar+Contacts, and Spotify.
 
chris7777 said:
Gotta love how so many are willing to jump on the "convienence" of paying apple to rent 100 gigs of space when 2TB can be had for that price, forever minus the convienence.
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Huh? iCloud is a sync tool that leverages storage. We all know we can buy local storage cheaper but that's not going to keep our data in sync now.

I think people are getting confused. iCloud's focus is on sync and using cloud storage to cache metadata and handle conflicts. It's not there to put up your entire music library or porn collection.


macsmurf said:
This would have been great a couple of years ago. Today I use gMail, Google Calendar+Contacts, and Spotify.
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Which is essentially saying I use crappy web apps because they are free.
 
chris7777 said:
Gotta love how so many are willing to jump on the "convienence" of paying apple to rent 100 gigs of space when 2TB can be had for that price, forever minus the convienence.
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And when you can get a 64GB flash stick for 100 bucks...eh...I'm not interested. My music is just not worth this much reoccurring cost, and for sharing things between friends/family, the 2-5 GBs free is plenty. Otherwise the flash stick in pocket is much easier and cheaper.
 
nuckinfutz said:
Which is essentially saying I use crappy web apps because they are free.
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Crappy? I don't use them as web apps but as backends for mail, calendar, and address book. I never use them directly. Also, Spotify is not a web app (or free in my case)

Of course Apple didn't do it so it must be crappy.
 
Jerome Morrow said:
We could do without pissing contest too. Just fine.
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How is it a pissing contest? I just thought some people who were not in the beta program could benefit from knowing that most of it is already available from other sources. I should have expected to be attacked for that, of course.

Anyway, I'll go away now.
 
macsmurf said:
How is it a pissing contest? I just thought some people who were not in the beta program could benefit from knowing that most of it is already available from other sources. I should have expected to be attacked for that, of course.

Anyway, I'll go away now.
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Of course everything is available already in other places. What difference does it make? I for example hate having stuff all around the internet and i believe there are many people that hate that too. Thereare many people that refuse to use google services (for obvious reasons) just as there are people that won't buy or use anything with Apple logo on it.

Everyone can choose.
 
macsmurf said:
Crappy? I don't use them as web apps but as backends for mail, calendar, and address book. I never use them directly. Also, Spotify is not a web app (or free in my case)

Of course Apple didn't do it so it must be crappy.
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Look I use Gmail to and it's definitely my favorite webmail but in the end I personally will go with native apps because they offer the Mac UI and integration that I cannot get as easily with web based stuff.

It's not about whether Apple created it or not but rather a difference of philosophy.

Google - push everything to the web. Local apps have a diminished or supportive role to the web.

Apple - Native apps offer a better experience...make them leverage the web for sync and communication but focus on native UI

Both deliver workable solutions so you simply have to do what's right by you.
 
I'm just hoping the sync function with documents is a lot less painful than iDisk.. That's one area they could learn from DropBox
 
numbersyx said:
I'm just hoping the sync function with documents is a lot less painful than iDisk.. That's one area they could learn from DropBox
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They've beaten iDisk by light years and Dropbox by miles. I still plan to use Dropbox where iCloud isn't feasible or implemented by I will always defer to iCloud when given the opportunity because

A. I don't have to initiate sync by placing a document into a folder
B. Performance should be great because I'm always working with delta changes
C. I shouldn't ever see sync conflict issues even if I've got the same app open on multiple computers.
 
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