One of the announcements from today’s Apple event was iCloud, described as “a set of free [with iOS5] cloud services that work with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.” In other words, iCloud is a file synchronization and sharing solution for Apple devices. Similar in some ways to Dropbox, the leading independent sync solution and arguably the world’s 5th most valuable startup.
The big question is: can Apple finally get sync right? Apple promises that iCloud will integrate “seamlessly with your apps, so everything happens automatically.” It’s absolutely crucial that Apple delivers on that promise, because sync is a key part of the multi-device world that we now live in. Perhaps for the first time since Android appeared on the scene to challenge the iPhone, Apple is at risk of losing customers if iCloud fails.
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