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What is iCloud?

What is iCloud?
iCloud stores your music, photos, apps, calendars, documents, and more. And wirelessly pushes them to all your devices — automatically. It’s the easiest way to manage your content. Because now you don’t have to.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html

iCloud includes:

  • iTunes in the Cloud
  • Photo Stream
  • Apps, Books, Documents and Backups
  • Contacts, Calendar and Mail
    (this is the MobileMe component)

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WWDC 2011: iCloud

Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs introduces iCloud.

iCloud is a service platform that supersedes MobileMe.

Features:

  • Daily backups of iOS device to iCloud over Wi-Fi.
    Purchased music, apps & books.
    Camera roll
    Device settings
    App data
  • Documents in the cloud,
  • Automatically syncs between iOS devices and computers (Mac and Windows)
  • Download all already purchased songs from iTunes with no additional fee.
  • iCloud comes free with iOS 5
  • Free 5GB of storage for mail. Apps and books do not count. Photo Stream does not count.

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Eve of WWDC 2011: iCloud is not replacing MobileMe.

Post WWDC Keynote UPDATE:
MobileMe becomes part of iCloud.

According a person who claims to be an Apple Executive and definitely is not Phil Schiller, iCloud is not replacing MobileMe. Does anyone remember the mess Apple was in during the transition from .Mac to MobileMe?

Our resident self-proclaimed telepath said that iCloud includes music, iOS App, extension to iDisk and much more. A lot of iCloud services are tied to iOS 5.

We’ll find out on Monday June 6th, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

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WWDC 2011 Keynote Live Coverage Links

Live coverage links for WWDC 2011 Keynote on Monday June 6th, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. San Francisco time (Pacific Time).

Search “wwdc 2011 live coverage” on Google and you will find a lot of links, The followings are vetted for your convenience:

CNN will be providing some kind of live coverage scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time (01:30 p.m. Eastern Time).

More of WWDC 2011 Keynote live coverage links will be added later.

There will be no sneak peek of the next iPhone or iPad, just iOS 5 demonstrated on iPhone 4 variants. Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 are reported to have some kind of integration with each other through the iCloud. Special apology to Phil and Scott for not acknowledging you two as the one who told me about the next iPhone that might not be an iPhone 5, because they are not the source I was told that it’s dubbed as iPhone 4.5 (it’s a trap?).

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Destination: Apple WWDC 2011

Apple to unveil Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud on June 6th, 2011 at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Steve Jobs and Apple Executive Team will address the keynote.

Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 3 is currently available to registered Apple Developers. Despite of the NDA in effect, details of Mac OS X Lion has been posted on the Internet.

iOS 5 beta is expected to be made available to registered Apple Developers following the WWDC keynote. According to sources, iOS 5 will be released in Fall 2011.

Apple will explain what iCloud is and where it stands with MobileMe service.