On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:21 AM, LuKreme wrote: > Jim Warthman <[email protected]> squawked out on Wednesday > 17-Aug-2011@20:47:10 >> On Aug 17, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: >>> Sure, I saw the presentation. I know it's meant -- for the moment at least >>> -- to be a convenience for sharing stuff among iDevices and such, and >>> that's all well and good as far as that goes, but I get that nagging >>> feeling it'll morph into a lock-in, iTunes won't work without access to it, >>> etc. I guess time will tell. I do hope I'm wrong! >> >> Is there a precedent with Apple? For instance, did Apple ever make a similar >> restriction with Mobile Me and iTunes? > > No, of course not. And iCloud is not anything like Google’s offering where > the cloud is in fact required (a google chrome tablet/netbook doesn’t work if > it can’t access the cloud). > > Apple is positioning iCloud to be the antithesis of this, where the cloud is > there to allow syncing and sharing the data that is stored and preserved on > your machines.
Precisely! And this is exactly the distinction that people need to understand - most notably, the "pundits" and bloggers who generally don't understand the difference. K > > -- > But just because you've seen me on your TV Doesn't mean I'm any more > enlightened than you > > > _______________________________________________ > iPhone-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
