Apple Announces iCloud and iWork For iOS

iONiUM writes "Through a press release ahead of WWDC, Apple has revealed that it will be releasing its own cloud service to rival Google and Amazon's. In addition, they will unveil the new iOS, and the latest desktop OS." Apple also announced the release of the iWork suite for iOS devices.

Comments

Looking forward to Lion

[hackertourist]

Autosave, Version and Resume are major improvements, and long overdue for desktop OSes.

Re:Looking forward to Lion

[betterunixthanunix]

That depends on your definition of "systemwide." I doubt that every program that runs on Mac OS X will have autosave or resume functionality; it will probably involve some sort of hook into the system. Such a framework existed in KDE3, where KDE applications could all resume after KDE was restarted (and this probably exists in KDE4), and all KDE applications had autosave (as far as I know).

Now, if Apple has written an operating system that enables autosave and resume for any application, even X11 applications, I will be very impressed.

Re:Let me be the first to foresee...

[Anonymous Coward]

"iCloud... When it is down, that is actually a feature."

When it's down, it's called iFog.

Re:When will there be too many "i"s?

[InsertWittyNameHere]

They should call it "Apple Mac OS X Cloud 2011 Premium Home Edition R2 SP1"

Re:What are the odds

[leamanc]

Typically, Apple uses BSD boxen when they are not using OS X Server. Since OS X's kernel has some BSD heritage, that doesn't seem too out of line. I think they only time Apple stuff has been identified as being served up from Linux has been on third-party hosting services like Akamai.

Re:When will there be too many "i"s?

[ArcherB]

I'm a huge Apple fan, but even I think this stuff with the "i" branding is just stupid and faintly embarrassing. Every Apple product has a fraeking "i" before it's otherwise utterly unimaginative name? "iCloud" - FFS.

Well, they used to start everything with "Mac", but too many people would be saying "there can be only one" if they called it MacCloud.

Re:When will there be too many "i"s?

[NameIsDavid]

If you ran the company, would you throw away the brand value of "i" just for the sake of being imaginative? When you here "i" anything, you know the product is Apple. Most companies would kill for that level of brand recognition.

Re:What are the odds

[pandrijeczko]

I wish that were the case.

I have no idea where you are in the world but if you're not in the UK (where you can watch it now on iPlayer on the BBC 3 web site), look out for the first in a series of documentaries called "The Secrets Of The Superbrands".

The first one is about technology companies and Apple feature heavily in it.

One particular disturbing scene (to me at least) shows fanbois sleeping rough outside of an Apple store in London overnight, not because of a new product launch the next day but because it was a NEW APPLE STORE opening the next day. Amongst the people queuing were fanbois who had flown in especially from Turkey, China and California.

If that is not the behaviour of disturbed religious cultists then I don't know what is.

iWork for iOS (summary clarification)

[FunnyStrange]

Not seeing this upthread, but might be redundant by now: The iWork announcement was for the "small" iOS devices (iPhone and iPod Touch). Those apps have been available for iPad (also iOS) for over a year. The update makes them universal. If you own them for iPad, they'll now work on the other devices (it's a free upgrade).