iCloud Icon Revealed. Apple Posts iCloud Banner at WWDC

[sigamy]

iCloud is going to be the iOS file system that everyone wants. Basically, it will be a Dropbox clone for Mac and iOS, with new APIs for apps.

Giving iCloud equal billing to Lion and iOS 5 means that it has to be bigger than just music streaming. Why would music streaming be a part of the equation that equals WWDC?

If Apple can do it right, this could end Dropbox...

 

[NSeven]

This icon has made my power reach 10000000000000000

 

[swagi]

iCloud is going to be the iOS file system that everyone wants. Basically, it will be a Dropbox clone for Mac and iOS, with new APIs for apps.

Giving iCloud equal billing to Lion and iOS 5 means that it has to be bigger than just music streaming. Why would music streaming be a part of the equation that equals WWDC?

If Apple can do it right, this could end Dropbox...

Yeah...major API being the "iAd"-API. Sorry to chime in in a pessimistic way but I rather think the equation means Steve's part of the keynote will sound like:

"First we got iAd on iOS. It works great. *insert a graph and typical RDF-blah-blah about iAd here*

Now with the advent of Lion you will be able to offer your apps for Mac OS X for free on the MacApp-Store. Just earn your money with iAds. We support it out of the box in XCode now with just one button. Let me give you a demo. *15 minutes of clicking showing off remarkable apps like Farmville or AngryBirds*

One more thing...Content providers now have a solution to deploy their TV shows in our new iCloud. You can either chose to offer them on a pay-per-view basis or let the content be streamed for free while supported with our *shiny* and *magical* iAd for iCloud. Just click here and...BOOM!...now you got your ad-supported NFL Super Bowl.

THis is absolutely amazing. It will change the indutry blah-blah-blah"

Now all of a sudden the banner makes perfekt sens.

 

[hellomoto4]

I couldn't really see a reason for the icon needing to be used anyway? I'd assume inbuilt support into iTunes and iPod.app so maybe we'll see a small icon of it but surely it won't be used in a standalone app?
That said, Apple could also go a different direction to what I'm assuming so it could mean we'd see it. Just my 2 cents.

 

[brunozs]

When they'll change the bubble wallpaper theme?

It's been 2 years already!

 

[T-Will]

I think there is a very limited range of information that can be keep under wraps any more. I still think there will be surprises.

The one thing they're good at keeping secret is anything to do with iOS 5. No screenshots or blurry spy photos have been leaked. Some logical next step features (better notifications which should have been in iOS4 and iCloud integration) are to be assumed, but no solid proof yet.

 

[jonnysods]

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They seem way less secretive about this event. Looking forward to Monday!

 

[caspersoong]

I don't like the icon. I won't be using it anyway.

 

[Saladinos]

So judging from these pics:
Image + Image = iCloud

Same. I immediately thought of iSync when I saw this. Maybe that's why the iSync app is gone with Lion (besides the fact that its functionality was dated). iCloud will likely involve some kind of syncing too, so maybe they're consciously making a subtle iSync 2.0 reference, but I'm surprised they'd bother.

I'm actually surprised they're using the brushed steel effect. That's one we haven't seen in a long time...

 

[Saladinos]

iCloud is going to be the iOS file system that everyone wants. Basically, it will be a Dropbox clone for Mac and iOS, with new APIs for apps.

Giving iCloud equal billing to Lion and iOS 5 means that it has to be bigger than just music streaming. Why would music streaming be a part of the equation that equals WWDC?

If Apple can do it right, this could end Dropbox...

What would the internal storage be for, then? It's currently for apps and app documents, and music/media. If Apple take music/media to the cloud, then it's just an app storage mechanism and for app documents. They could be seeing the internal storage more as a cache for cloud-stored documents and apps. That would allow them to cut the flash and hence the size/price for future models.

On the other hand, I really want a decent local filesystem. For things like the iPad, and with flash prices coming down and capacity increasing, it makes no sense to limit the role of internal storage, especially with the connectivity requirement being so much more of an idealistic than a practically realisable goal, and that networking uses more data and power overall than locally stored content.

 

[ZipZapRap]

iCloud... what an awful name.

Time to stop beating the dead horse. Try something different, Apple.