Hello I think it makes much more sense if you think of iCloud as the new central place where you buy, manage and control the syncing of all your content (music, podcasts, books, apps, bookmarks, etc.). Up until now that place was one particular instance of iTunes running on your primary Mac or PC, which meant that if you had more than one Mac/PC it was really chaotic to manage. Now the Macs/PCs are just another device... welcome to the post-PC era :-)
Like John Gruber says: "iCloud is the new iTunes. The tethered digital hub is dead; long live the wireless digital hub" http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted Cheers, André On Jun 7, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Shen wrote: > OK, let me see if I can try to reduce some of the confusion. If not, > feel free to check out the WWDC coverage on Cnet. I get all my info > from them. > > When you buy music on Amazon.com, you can have it available as > download, or via streaming in your Amazon cloud player. Music you > purchase does not count towards your quota on the Amazon Cloud Player. > Why is that? That's because Amazon knows you purchased it, so it makes > the music available. It doesn't make a physical copy and put it in > your Cloud. > This is the same concept with iTunes. > The 5GB storage is for your documents, photos, bookmarks, contacts, > calendar, but not music. Music is downloaded to your device, not kept > in your 5GB storage and not for streaming. > iTunes keeps a record of your purchases so when you connect to a > registered device, it downloads all your content. > > hth > > > > > > > > > > On 6/7/11, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, I truly am confused. Here's a quote from Apple: >> >> "When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. And >> that’s plenty of room, because of the way iCloud stores your content. Your >> purchased music, apps, and books, as well as your Photo Stream, don’t count >> against your free storage. That leaves your mail, documents, Camera Roll, >> account information, settings, and other app data. And since those things >> don’t use as much space, you’ll find that 5GB goes a long way." >> >> http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html >> >> Teresa >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Shen > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
