Apple in June 2011 plans to introduce a new cloud service iCloud. It is assumed that it will replace MobileMe, which costs $ 99 a year, says All Things Digital. Probably, the new service will be free.
Mainly iCloud will be devoted to music, and will pass it on from its library, located on the Internet on company servers, the mobile device or computer to stream.
Apple has already signed an agreement with EMI Music and is close to signing contracts with Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, says CNet. The latter is the world's largest recording studio. According to experts, having the contract for the supply of music in iCloud with all three companies, Apple will offer users the widest selection, since many of the songs, each of these studios has exclusive rights.
In the first half of May, your own musical cloud service introduced Google, earlier - Amazon. It is expected that Apple will service more popular. The fact that service by Google, and Amazon services actually offer cloud storage, allowing users to download tracks on the servers from their computers to get access to them elsewhere. Google, for example, agreed to take up to 20 thousand tracks from each user.
Scheme of work iCloud different. The main feature is that users will not need to download anything. Service simply scan the local media and automatically generate a library on the Internet of the tracks obtained directly from the recording studios over the Internet. That is, the formation of an identical library on the Internet takes a few seconds. With Google going to do something similar, but admitted that they did not get an agreement with the studios.
According to AppleInsider, besides music, the service will offer services that are currently under MobileMe, - Synchronize your calendar, contacts and bookmarks, as well as its own postal service.
As written by GigaOM, the company recently acquired a website iCloud.com, which will house the new project. According to unofficial information, the transaction value of $ 4.5 million is anticipated that the new service will be presented at the conference WWDC, which will be held in San Francisco in June of this year.
Mainly iCloud will be devoted to music, and will pass it on from its library, located on the Internet on company servers, the mobile device or computer to stream.
Apple has already signed an agreement with EMI Music and is close to signing contracts with Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, says CNet. The latter is the world's largest recording studio. According to experts, having the contract for the supply of music in iCloud with all three companies, Apple will offer users the widest selection, since many of the songs, each of these studios has exclusive rights.
In the first half of May, your own musical cloud service introduced Google, earlier - Amazon. It is expected that Apple will service more popular. The fact that service by Google, and Amazon services actually offer cloud storage, allowing users to download tracks on the servers from their computers to get access to them elsewhere. Google, for example, agreed to take up to 20 thousand tracks from each user.
Scheme of work iCloud different. The main feature is that users will not need to download anything. Service simply scan the local media and automatically generate a library on the Internet of the tracks obtained directly from the recording studios over the Internet. That is, the formation of an identical library on the Internet takes a few seconds. With Google going to do something similar, but admitted that they did not get an agreement with the studios.
According to AppleInsider, besides music, the service will offer services that are currently under MobileMe, - Synchronize your calendar, contacts and bookmarks, as well as its own postal service.
As written by GigaOM, the company recently acquired a website iCloud.com, which will house the new project. According to unofficial information, the transaction value of $ 4.5 million is anticipated that the new service will be presented at the conference WWDC, which will be held in San Francisco in June of this year.
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