{"id":14668,"date":"2011-06-05T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14668"},"modified":"2011-06-05T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:25:44","slug":"peering-into-apples-new-icloud-service-to-be-rolled-out-tomorrow-to-see-how-much-closer-we-might-get-to-virtuoso-virtuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14668\/peering-into-apples-new-icloud-service-to-be-rolled-out-tomorrow-to-see-how-much-closer-we-might-get-to-virtuoso-virtuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Peering into Apple’s new iCloud service, to be rolled out tomorrow, to see how much closer we might get to virtuoso virtuality."},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Jobs is going to do the keynote presentation at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference tomorrow. Surely part of his motivation is to show Apple’s shareholders that he is still in charge. But Jobs wouldn’t be doing this if Apple didn’t have some cool new toys to show off.<\/p>\n

Systems designer Kevin Fix speculates about what might be on the agenda:<\/a><\/p>\n

I get the feeling that the announcements at next week’s Apple WWDC are going to represent the same kind of fundamental shift in Apple’s offering that the iPod did in 2001.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any inside info, and I make a point of not trying to pry secrets from my friends who work at Apple, but the rumblings are huge. ‘iCloud’ could mean anything, but given the complete failure of MobileMe over the last decade there’s no way Apple would introduce it on such a pedestal unless it’s incredible. My guess is that iCloud is to MobileMe as iPhone was to Newton: a complete, deep, polished solution after an underwhelming market failure.<\/p>\n

Apple took a long time to get the Internet. Geeks were still installing FTP clients and web browsers for years after Apple belatedly included TCP\/IP and PPP to their OS and, when Apple finally did integrate the Internet into Mac OS, it was in a very tacked on kind of way. A browser, an app for making web pages, eventually a few vertical online stores. I think that’s all about to change.<\/p>\n

The scene has been building for a long time: The iPhone blurred the line between using a local device and being online. Chromebooks propose to eliminate the line completely by using an OS that expects to be online all the time (though still has limited functionality when the wireless cord is cut). Dropbox is a huge hit because it provides the most seamless way to use native apps while still writing to the cloud. Google and Amazon are tripping over each other (and the music labels) trying to roll out virtual music lockers.<\/p>\n

My guess though is that these vertical solutions will seem pretty thin by the end of next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What, specifically, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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