iCloud to Cost $25 Yearly (Eventually)

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Apple will be announcing its upcoming iCloud service at the WorldWide Developer Conference in San Francisco this Monday. No less than Steve Jobs himself will be making the announcement. The cloud service will initially be free with the purchase of music from Apple’s iTune Store.

The report also claims that though it will initially focus on music, eventually iCloud will let customers upload movies and other digital content.
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Yes, Apple built out a 500,000ish sqft datacenter in NC over the past year to support all this.
 
though the "i"Cloud name isnt a suprise , "i" is getting old ,lol, they should name something , new , magical, wonderful... oh wait.. nvm
 
If at first you don't succeed, rebrand and relaunch. iDisk, .Mac, MobileMe, and now iCloud. Let's see how this one works out.
 
Next headline: Apple files suit against multiple companies for infringing on their trademark 'iCloud' by referring to their services by the term 'cloud.'
 
I have the funny feeling the only content this will work with is stuff you've bought on iTunes. No uploading of your library like Amazon/Google.

On the flip side, this is the only cloud media service that's blessed by the record labels and doesn't have a boatload of legal action coming its way, so we may be stuck with it.
 
Eschatos said:
If at first you don't succeed, rebrand and relaunch. iDisk, .Mac, MobileMe, and now iCloud. Let's see how this one works out.
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Man I remember working for CompUSA back before they went out of business and having to push .Mac subs with all Mac purchases. People used to look at me like I was some kind of retard when I explained it, but most always ended up buying it because it was an Apple product.

Blind fanboyism is so terrible sadly this will end up working for them at some point. With Apple market share being what it is now, it might actually get off the ground.

BTW apple is lame.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these songs already stored on Apple's iTune store servers? So couldn't they have just made it so that you can redownload (I assume you can't) automatically on a new device if you've purchased the music already?

Oh wait, they wanted to jump on the Cloud ship and most likely Steve Jobs will make it "revolutionary" with the letter "i".
 
Spidey329 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these songs already stored on Apple's iTune store servers? So couldn't they have just made it so that you can redownload (I assume you can't) automatically on a new device if you've purchased the music already?

Oh wait, they wanted to jump on the Cloud ship and most likely Steve Jobs will make it "revolutionary" with the letter "i".
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Yes you can. I'm guessing you've never used iTunes but you have an account, and if you pay for something through that account, it will always be stored even if you delete it. Just like apps, you purchase and download an app. You get bored of it and delete it. If you want to go back and get it again, iTunes will popup a warning saying "You've already purchased this..." blah blah and you get it for free. It's linked by account not by device. Paying for the same thing over and over again would be stupid.
 
Eschatos said:
If at first you don't succeed, rebrand and relaunch. iDisk, .Mac, MobileMe, and now iCloud. Let's see how this one works out.
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Sad part is the general public will think it's a brand new service and something revolutionary that Apple has come up with. :rolleyes:
 
chinspecial said:
Sad part is the general public will think it's a brand new service and something revolutionary that Apple has come up with. :rolleyes:
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If you haven't heard of something yet then isn't that technically...new? Apple hasn't come up with the idea but you're damn sure it will be the first time people have heard of the services cloud provides. Apple's marketing team is brilliant. They depict everything that make as being so simple and easy to understand. To the masses, cloud services are brand new and Apple will market the hell out of their product and make it so simple. This is where Apple shines and why Apple will blow the competition out of the water.
 
IDon'tcare, the cloud sucks beyond the average Joe using it, anything more and it's neither cost effective, or 100% secure.
 
Maverick1337 said:
If you haven't heard of something yet then isn't that technically...new? Apple hasn't come up with the idea but you're damn sure it will be the first time people have heard of the services cloud provides. Apple's marketing team is brilliant. They depict everything that make as being so simple and easy to understand. To the masses, cloud services are brand new and Apple will market the hell out of their product and make it so simple. This is where Apple shines and why Apple will blow the competition out of the water.
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I will agree with you that Apple's marketing department knows what they're doing and make their products very marketable. There's not arguing that looking at all the success the company has had over the past years.

However, I do not agree that just because you haven't heard of something doesn't make it "new". It may make it new to you, but it is not generally "new". There are plenty of people who haven't read the classics or don't know of advanced physics, but if they take a class on them and learn about it, it doesn't make them magically "new" concepts.
 
Apples "i" products are like herpes. The gift that keeps spreading and spreading amongst all of your dumb ass friends.
 
chinspecial said:
I will agree with you that Apple's marketing department knows what they're doing and make their products very marketable. There's not arguing that looking at all the success the company has had over the past years.

However, I do not agree that just because you haven't heard of something doesn't make it "new". It may make it new to you, but it is not generally "new". There are plenty of people who haven't read the classics or don't know of advanced physics, but if they take a class on them and learn about it, it doesn't make them magically "new" concepts.
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You pretty much restated what I said. Although the concepts aren't new, 90% of the public doesn't know what cloud is. They may here it on the TV or see an ad on the internet but they don't know what it means. Apple comes along, makes their own service (this case cloud) they'll market the hell out of it and make it soooo simple to understand for the population. You have to realize we are a small minority that go on the internet and research the latest and greatest. Apple doesn't make money off those people, they make it off the simple-minded person that says "Oh wow, that looks neat and it's so simple to use!" And that's what will happen with cloud. It's not a new concept or revolution as a whole but to many people individually, it will be.
 
Maverick1337 said:
You pretty much restated what I said. Although the concepts aren't new, 90% of the public doesn't know what cloud is. They may here it on the TV or see an ad on the internet but they don't know what it means. Apple comes along, makes their own service (this case cloud) they'll market the hell out of it and make it soooo simple to understand for the population. You have to realize we are a small minority that go on the internet and research the latest and greatest. Apple doesn't make money off those people, they make it off the simple-minded person that says "Oh wow, that looks neat and it's so simple to use!" And that's what will happen with cloud. It's not a new concept or revolution as a whole but to many people individually, it will be.
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This is indeed part of the brilliance of Apple's marketing. While the iDevices are revolutionary in that they did popularize and mass market technology, NOT ONE was the first, not the iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Indeed the slates and tablets are decades old but now MILLIONS of people think that Apple invented tablets. Pure marketing brilliance really. It's so bad that even today when I have one my Windows tablets, none of which even remotely resemble an iPad, I get people asking me if it's an iPad.
 
heatlesssun said:
This is indeed part of the brilliance of Apple's marketing. While the iDevices are revolutionary in that they did popularize and mass market technology, NOT ONE was the first, not the iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Indeed the slates and tablets are decades old but now MILLIONS of people think that Apple invented tablets. Pure marketing brilliance really. It's so bad that even today when I have one my Windows tablets, none of which even remotely resemble an iPad, I get people asking me if it's an iPad.
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That makes sense for actual products, but here Apple is asking users to pay $25 (will most likely equate to €25) to listen to music they already own. It's ok for people not to know that Apple didn't create tablets, smartphones, mp3 players ... but for them paying for something they actually already own, that's just plain stupid, no? :confused:

Oh wait, we're talking about Apple users here. :D
 
dyzophoria said:
though the "i"Cloud name isnt a suprise , "i" is getting old ,lol, they should name something , new , magical, wonderful... oh wait.. nvm
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Every company has a trademark - Dell with their Inspiron, HP with their Pavilion, Apple with their i-something, and so on.
 
Maverick1337 said:
You pretty much restated what I said. Although the concepts aren't new, 90% of the public doesn't know what cloud is. They may here it on the TV or see an ad on the internet but they don't know what it means. Apple comes along, makes their own service (this case cloud) they'll market the hell out of it and make it soooo simple to understand for the population. You have to realize we are a small minority that go on the internet and research the latest and greatest. Apple doesn't make money off those people, they make it off the simple-minded person that says "Oh wow, that looks neat and it's so simple to use!" And that's what will happen with cloud. It's not a new concept or revolution as a whole but to many people individually, it will be.
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You seem to be missing the point of my posts. I am AGREEING with you in the fact that Apple has a great marketing department. My original post was made to have a bit of sarcasm and bite toward the average consumer because I don't agree with Apple's philosophy. I am very aware that the average consumer doesn't peruse tech blogs and go on [H] to see the latest soft/hardware trends.


Also, you changed your point by saying that the concepts aren't new, which is what I refuted in the first place. Basically, you're trying to explain to me something I have already agreed with you on, and ignoring the part where you were wrong.
 
heatlesssun said:
This is indeed part of the brilliance of Apple's marketing. While the iDevices are revolutionary in that they did popularize and mass market technology, NOT ONE was the first, not the iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Indeed the slates and tablets are decades old but now MILLIONS of people think that Apple invented tablets. Pure marketing brilliance really. It's so bad that even today when I have one my Windows tablets, none of which even remotely resemble an iPad, I get people asking me if it's an iPad.
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Sorry, forgot there's no edit button on these posts. I would just like to say that Heatlessun really has got nailed what I was trying to say. Props to you.
 
Ascario said:
That makes sense for actual products, but here Apple is asking users to pay $25 (will most likely equate to €25) to listen to music they already own. It's ok for people not to know that Apple didn't create tablets, smartphones, mp3 players ... but for them paying for something they actually already own, that's just plain stupid, no? :confused:

Oh wait, we're talking about Apple users here. :D
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Not really arguing with you here, you can do this stuff pretty simply with free tools or there are services that give you this as part of the deal. In my case with Zune Pass the bulk of my stuff is already in the cloud, can access it from my Windows computers and phones, stuff not in Zune Pass will stream remotely through Windows Media Player.

My point is now with the term "iCloud" millions will think that Apple invented cloud computing.
 
chinspecial said:
Sorry, forgot there's no edit button on these posts. I would just like to say that Heatlessun really has got nailed what I was trying to say. Props to you.
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Thanks, Apple fans will think I'm being a troll but I've seen this effect time and time and time again. I've never owned an iPod, iPhone, or iPad, but I've been asked countless times devices that I have had was an iDevice even when they looked NOTHING like an Apple product. Just like I've seen time and time again a Mac user when seeing an issue with Windows that often has NOTHING to do with Windows per se, bad driver or program, think that simply by using a Mac the problem would magically disappear. Even when a Mac running OS X wouldn't even support the technology.
 
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