My understanding of iCloud is it is a set of APIs and backend systems to
store and sync media between different devices. I would have to assume
that just for supporting this on iTunes for Windows Apple will have to
port and allow developers on Windows to integrate it into their apps.
Specific to your question, XP was discontinued last year after being
released in August 2001. I doubt Apple or anybody is going to be putting
effort into developing anything new for that platform. You can't even
buy it except for the clearance stores that still have inventory. Having
just looked for a copy of XP, like getting a copy of OSX 10.5, these
places figure you must be desperate to want to buy a copy of XP and so
they charge accordingly. While iTunes currently supports Windows XP, I
wouldn't be surprised if that gets bumped off or has exceptions for
iCloud down the road. It's a conundrum for app developers because up
until October last year XP was still 50% of the internet web users but
as of July of this year Win7 finally passed XP and currently sits at 42%
while XP is at 36%. This according to w3schools stats:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Nice to see the Mac climbing and currently showing at 8.6%. Of course
w3schools caters to a more techie crowd so stats might be skewed.
Gartner shows Mac at 10.7% and the #3 Q2 shipper of machines (1.8M)
after Dell (3.8M) and HP (5.4M). Apple grew market share 8.5% over the
last 12 month period while Dell slipped 9.8% and HP 1.2%.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/13/apple-soars-to-third-place-in-u-s-pc-market-with-10-7-share/
Curious what the Q3 numbers are.
CB
On 10/12/11 4:03 AM, William Windels wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if there is or there will be a way to use iclaude on a winxp
computer?
I have red that Apple , same as Microsoft, only should support vista and win7
from now.
But, perhaps there are or will be some third party solutions to solve this
problem.
Thanx for your answers,
Best regards and a wonderful day from Belgium
William
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