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iCloud: What it is and What it does :)

2011-06-06
hey guys johnathan here with TLD got a recap an overview of the newly announced iCloud from Steve Jobs himself this morning at WWDC 2011 someone explain what it is and what it does to briefly summarize it it's going to take all your files so your music your photos your apps is going to wirelessly sync them through the air to the cloud get the name and it's going to sync them to all your devices now I've got some good news and some bad news the bad news being for if you are a mobile me user and you pay for the service it is now dead it is now iCloud and is now free you get five gigs of storage it's not going to cost you a penny and the way they a lot that is kind of interesting so your music your apps your books and your photo stream actually don't count against your five gigs of storage so it's going to last pretty long now we can break this basically down into four categories we've got iTunes in the cloud be number one Photo Stream be number two then apps books documents and backup number three and last but not least number four is contacts calendar and mail we're going to look at iTunes in the cloud and first and foremost once you buy music now you're not going to have to worry about repurchasing if you lose it once you buy that on your iPhone it's going to automatically sync that to the cloud sent to your other devices like your iPad example or even your PC or your Mac they're also rolling out a paid service called iTunes Match twenty-five bucks a year which isn't bad and essentially all your other music that's not purchased through iTunes so it can be powered in music for you pirates out there don't do that that's bad but it is included so it's going to search for your other library match it up to the cloud and you can actually even listen in to higher of a bitrate so if your song is at 128 kilobits per second you can now listen to it at 256 kilobits per second next up is Photo Stream that's going to be included on iCloud so once you take a picture on your iPhone for example it's automatically going to send it to your iPad and your Mac or your PC you're not gonna have to sync anything you're not gonna have to email it's automatically going to be there onto number three is apps books documents and backup they actually got beta versions of these up on Apple's site link will be down below so once you purchase an app you can automatically sync it from your iPhone to your iPad is going to be backed up on your Mac same thing with iBooks documents and actually the cool thing with documents actually if you're editing something on your iPhone you can actually pick up and resume from your iPad it's all going to be synced up saved very cool stuff almost like Google Docs but done better now the backup obviously is going to back beating up if you lost your iPhone for example you had to pick up a new one all you got to do is wirelessly sync up and it's like you had your old one last but not least we got contacts calendar and mail this is essentially is the MobileMe portion of it except now you're not going to pay for that's automatically going to be backed up from all your devices from your iPhone to your iPad to your Mac all that's going to be in unison so that's really not anything new from what you've seen from mobile me if you used it in the past still cool nonetheless that we don't have to pay for again it's going to be available this fall there are beta versions of some things like the iTunes and the apps I will post links down below where you guys can check that out if you missed it we got some ìiî coverage click that video right here as well as a recap of iOS 5 top 10 features in 3 minutes and 22 seconds for you guys who are nitpicky other than that feel free to subscribe and I will catch you guys later you
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