Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils iCloud’s music-syncing feature in San Francisco this morning. (Credit: CNET)
Steve Jobs handled the iCloud announcement himself this morning at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. iCloud is the company’s new cloud storage offering that will handle everything from documents to media syncing.
Due to launch in the Autumn (we can’t bring ourselves to say ‘Fall’), iCloud will be free with iOS5 and will include 5Gb of free storage. You can register your interest here.
Nomad notice more than a passing similarity with Dropbox. A cloud utility that we’ve found absolutely invaluable here at Nomad and would have no hesitation in recommending to others. Dropbox does the following;
Any file you save to Dropbox also instantly saves to all your computers, phones, and the Dropbox website.
- 2GB of Dropbox for free, with subscriptions up to 100GB available.
- Files always available from the secure Dropbox website.
- Works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android andBlackBerry.
- Works even when offline. You always have your files, whether or not you have a connection.
- Dropbox transfers just the parts of a file that change (not the whole thing).
Simple sharing
Shared folders allow people to work together on the same projects and documents.
- Invite friends, family or colleagues to a folder. It’ll be as if you saved the folder to their computers.
- See other people’s changes instantly.
- Create photo galleries viewable by anyone you choose.
- Send a link, by email or Twitter, to any file in your Dropbox using your Public folder.
As “Apple fanboys” ourselves, we await the launch of iOS5 with much interest. We are now seeing the start of the Cloud revolution, which by truly enabling mobile and flexible working, has to be welcomed. We just need ubiquitous wireless connectivity and universal high speed broadband and we’re good to go!
