Apple iCloud: An iOS User’s Wish List

The iCloud has asleep from rumour, to speculation, to confirmed military service. Now we just need the details. What will it do? How much wish information technology cost? Sensible how witching will it be? Fit, I don't have any privileged insight, but here are my predictions (a.k.a. "wish tilt") for what to expect from the iCloud.

First, it seems frank at this target that the iCloud will at least offer around rather online music storage and/or streaming. It doesn't subscribe to a Nostradamus to "forecas" that at this point–information technology would almost be like "predicting" that the Putting green Quest Packers leave win Big Bowl XLV.

I'm not interrogative for much–just cut the corduroy and set my iOS devices free.

Some of the rumors and guess active how iCloud music volition work, though, sound interesting. I have not yet dabbled with the Google Music service, but I am a semi-avid user of the Amazon Cloud Music service. I appreciate having access to my music collection from virtually anywhere, and near some Web-connected device, merely so far that only really applies to the music I have purchased from Amazon since information technology started pushing the cloud music service. I have much 60GB of medicine on my hard drive that isn't available in the cloud up. I could upload IT, but information technology will take days (maybe weeks) to get that much data transferred to Amazon.

Rumor has it, though, that Apple will resolve this trouble. Orchard apple tree's iCloud will scan my Personal computer to puzzle out what music I own, then just magically populate my iCloud with those same songs and save me the hassle of uploading them. Awful. Information technology is genius in its simplicity. I make out what songs I have. You know what songs I have. You already have them on your servers, so why should I have to upload them?

My single biggest wish for iCloud is that Apple finally cuts the cord for updating my iOS devices. This is 2011. This is supposed to comprise the "post-PC" era, right hand Steve? Why do I have to leash my iPhone operating room iPad to my PC to stupefy the fashionable iOS updates and keep it synced–especially when the covered USB cable that comes with the iPhone and iPad sucks? It cracks. The wires fray. I'd say it was a good fortune, but I own five of them and it has happened along all one of them.

While we're at it, though, don't impartial free my iOS devices from my PC–free them from iTunes. iTunes is an abomination. It is the single least intuitive, least magical affair ever to come taboo of Apple. Information technology is a ignominy that awesome devices like the iPhone and iPad are shackled to such crappy computer software.

iCloud should let Pine Tree State seamlessly sync and update my iPhone and iPad over the air and on the go. No wires. No iTunes. Write out the cord, and let my people…I stingy iOS devices..go! That's the sympathetic of "magic" I'm looking.

Apple has already pulled back the drape and discovered what's on the docket for following week's WWDC–Apple's annual Global Developers Conference where it reveals the new magic for the coming yr suchlike Willy Wonka taking kids on tour through the chocolate factory. As a matter of fact, it literally created an agenda as an iOS app. So, we know that the iCloud will be undraped, and we even know when. Today, we just experience to wait to find prohibited what IT's all about and see if my wishes…I mean predictions…semen true.