Considering that the Notes and Reminders apps on iOS will soon appear on OS X Mountain Lion, it probably shouldn’t come as a huge shock that they’ll probably be part of iCloud’s suite of web apps. Today, the two utilities have popped up in screens for the beta version of iCloud, which nobody can seem to login to.
Apple’s iCloud is powered on the back of some seriously dirty electricity. That truly sucks. You know what else sucks? Cleaning dozens of balloons out of a cavernous Apple store after Greenpeace protesters attack.
Now that Google Drive is finally here and you can use it, the first question is simple: is it better than the cloud service you’re already using (or maybe considering using)? We haven’t had the chance to put Google Drive through the ringer quite yet, but we can compare it to the competition on paper.
According to a report by 9-to-5 Mac, Apple dev teams are already hard at work on the next major release of iTunes. Here’s what it could include
We’re not the biggest fans of iCloud’s Photo Stream feature, largely because you can’t manually delete pictures saved to the cloud without wiping everything out. But as devs are noticing in iOS 5.1 Beta 2, that’s about to change…kinda.
Over in the busy courts of Germany, Apple just suffered a little loss in a preliminary hearing that might snowball into a huge one: iCloud is potentially infringing on patents owned by Motorola. The German courts could order an injunction that’ll force Apple to stop selling products that connect to iCloud.
In the olden days, most of the music on music fans’ hard drives came from P2P networks and ripped CDs. If Apple’s vision of the music cloud proves dominant, the future will resemble that past, perhaps with MP3s downloaded from music blogs replacing CD ripping.
