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Apple Wants To Store Your History In the Cloud
bizwriter writes "Most online backup is about keeping the latest and greatest version of what resides on a device, whether a PC, tablet, or smartphone. Three recent patent filings suggest that Apple has a super version of backup on its mind. Someone would be able to go into an application (like iTunes or the App Store), find what material was available at a previous time, and recover any or all of what once was there without having to use a separate recovery program."
Completely different from Dropbox, in that it doesn't have anything to do with the cloud. The article is nonsense, the patent quotes say nothing about the cloud. They very clearly relate to the local document versioning system that Apple is putting in in the next version on OSX (Lion), and has already announced.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
Completely different. GoBack worked at the disk drive level. If I wanted to revert back to my spreadsheet of last week, I'd revert every other file back to last week too.
Lions "Versions" works at the application level, so that individual document files have a history.
And the patents themselves regard the user interface, and as you can see, they could not be more different.
http://soswindowsfr.free.fr/olivier/goback_fichiers/goback-historique.gif
http://images.apple.com/macosx/lion/images/overview_versions20110127.jpg