iCloud: Apple Makes Files Invisible

The fans had expected a lot – but Steve Jobs was stingy with surprises. After all, the Apple CEO introduced prior to the developer meeting new functions that do the tedious tasks. Shall substitute a free online storage, the back-and-Herkopieren of documents and music. The CEO personally wanted the Apple developers will present the new features of the operating systems for Macs and mobile devices. But while the highly anticipated keynote at the annual developers meeting in San Francisco Steve Jobs gave the stage most of his staff. The Apple boss is in poor health, is actually far from recovering the company.

Was presented, as announced previously, an online storage service. About icloud future devices are synchronized with each other, exchanging not only files but also Apps and settings. Users of iPhone and iPad still need to wait a while to update, the mobile operating system iOS 5 comes in the fall. Mac users, however, are to be supplied in July at a great price with new software.

The highlight of the meeting was the presentation of an online music service. When Apple purchased music is automatically in future on all of the registered devices. U.S. users for an annual fee of around $ 25 also on the network to access music that they are as a file on your computer without at Apple (or elsewhere) to have bought. Provided that the iTunes Store takes the song in the offer.

New hardware conjured Steve Jobs not out of the hat – and also announced software enhancements, delighted the audience not just as in previous events of this kind

But what exactly Apple has introduced? What changes come when the market? And how has presented CEO Steve Jobs? Read it in minutes Protocol:

+ + + Non-streaming service, no new hardware + + +

[21.00 Clock] After exactly two hours, the show is over – and disillusionment sets in: It was no big surprise icloud, at most, that the missing streaming. Similarly, the release date of iOS 5 in the fall for quite a while back.

One of the innovations in common: The user should have as little to do with the file systems of their Apple devices. Pictures, music, documents, everything should be automatically saved on the central Apple server and replaced, so to speak quietly in the background. Moving folders and files from one device to another is taken from the user more and more.

A strategy that works well on Google with its Chrome operating system. Where files are now stored, is also there any – of these documents are in the data cloud and can be edited from anywhere. What operating system hires exactly with the files, which is loaded into a cache, users do not care more.

This is handy – but has a price: the user from giving even more control over their data.

+ + + “One more thing” + + +

[20.53 Clock] There is still a little surprise: For an annual fee of $ 24.99 compares iTunes Match “your own music with the iTunes Store and provides songs that you have not purchased from Apple, icloud still in the ready. However, initially only for U.S. users.

Amazon will have a similar offer $ 200.

… and final, no hardware this time

+ + + ITunes in the Cloud + + +

[20.47 Clock] music that you bought from the Apple online store, we can now push of a button transferred to any device. New purchases will be sent by registered icloud to up to ten computers and smartphones. So far, no word on whether music is also streamed – even it looks simple file synchronization.

Jobs summarizes: The icloud is free, 5 GB of space there is, it will be music, apps, and books are not counted. “ITunes in the cloud” starts today as a beta for everyone. icloud comes only with iOS 5 in the fall.

+ + + This is how the photo-sharing + + +

[20.44 clock] to think not only about saving and copying files: “photostream” photos will automatically icloud, from where they are carried over automatically to all other devices in the. Also works with the Apple TV box and Windows computers. IOS devices always have the last 1000 Photos are saved on both Mac and PC all the shots. The demo is – of course – very fast: as soon as a photo shot with the iPhone, one can already see on the iPad.

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[20.39 Clock] interjection from the comments: “. Oh yes let down your personal data directly in Steve’s throat,” writes “pericolum”, which Jobs Office presenting this: “Giant plasma screen with the map, anywhere where an Apple device by a user is a small point. And depending on the day he picked at random from points and can then look at because all the personal data that the users have on their respective device like this. ”

In April it became known that Apple iPhones in motion profiles of its users had created, in part for several months – the company spoke of a malfunction and put the data collection after massive protest.

+ + + The All-cloud + + +

[20.32 Clock] Once a day, all important data is transmitted in the icloud – but only over WLAN not over the air. If you buy a new device, all content is automatically transferred to it. A function that Android users have long since learned to appreciate.

The Apple Store is the way online – new devices are not probably to be expected, otherwise the online ordering system as usual been put into maintenance mode.

iWorks Manager Roger Rossner shows documents in the icloud, is as long as jobs are in addition to the stage. The photographers rush only to him.

+ + + “Why should I believe them?” + + +

[20.26 Clock] Unusual self-criticism: Jobs asks himself why a user would think the makers of “MobileMe”. Is the name of Apple‘s previous attempt to e-mail, contacts, calendar, files and photos to sync over the web. “That was not our best app,” said Jobs.

icloud to make it better: “It does everything.” If you change a contact on the iPhone, that change is automatically transferred to iPad and Mac (if you call these devices are personal and is registered in the Apple user account). If you buy an Apps or books, these are also distributed via icloud on the equipment.

And get rid of it: the fee-based “MobileMe” is out now history. icloud other hand is free – and forever.

+ + + + + + Steve is back

[20.23 Clock] The Boss is back – and blaspheme about synchronizing files by cable. In future, the online stores should be on the Internet, the data cloud, the central hub, not only for files.

+ + +-Activated devices without cables + + +

[20.11 Clock] It’s done now you had iPad and iPhone, the devices of the post-PC era, the activation still connect by cable to a computer – there was always a mockery. The cable handler no longer operates. Even software updates are now delivered over the air “. Instead of the full, several hundred megabytes large are transferable only to future innovations. A downside: iOS comes first “in the fall” for the user. Dead silence in the room.

Just reach us by e-mail: “Lion” will cost € 23.99 in Germany.

+ + + Camera + + + quick start

[20.02 Clock] Practical: If the phone is locked, it can be on a new screen icon immediately select the camera, the volume button on the side of the device then acts as a trigger for quick snapshots. New features facilitate the processing of images such as the straightening, cropping or color correction.

+ + + Attention, you are here + + +

[20.00 Clock] A new alarm can trigger an alarm if it goes to a certain place. When leaving the office can really be remembered, but to call once the partner in order to evening programming. (Those who forget the can, however, not even Apple might help …)

+ + + + + + Apple integrates Twitter

[19.58 Clock] Twitter is now integrated into the IOS. Photos can be, for example, not only by e-mail or print ship, but also provide on Twitter. Also allows YouTube videos, send Web sites, texts and local brands as a tweet.

A new reading mode for the mobile Safari web browser is to facilitate the reading of texts. On the one hand, a reading list is to create later, on the other hand, items shown without their web environment, with no navigation and advertising banners. Multipart texts are combined into one article.

Now you had for something like apps like “Instapaer” and use services such as “Read it later”. Safari, this text automatically on the Apple server on all platforms and devices available, even on Windows PC.

+ + + Subscription function for digital content + + +

[Clock 19.52] A new subscription function is to (pay) download content in the future in the background. Shown is a iPad and current issues of GQ, Esquire and Elle. A lot of publishers are, in addition to U.S. sizes and the Axel Springer Verlag and Ringier in Switzerland.

+ + + IOS 5 with new system messages + + +

[19.43 Clock] next guest on the Steve-Jobs-Stage: Scott Forstall, head of the mobile operating system IOS. He also gives figures: 200 million sold IOS devices, ie iPhones, iPods and iPads, there are altogether. He has a market share of 44 percent – for Google‘s “free” mobile operating system Android, he has calculated 28 percent.

15 billion songs were sold via the iTunes Music Store, the Apple iBook Store has sold more than 130 million books. App Store Apps in 425 000 are available in three years, 14 billion were sold.

The new iOS 5 should have more than 200 new features. The key new features include a revised system for the status messages you want the phone and the user’s apps, called Notifications. In the “Notification Center” these are collected centrally – handy if the iPhone was from time to time. The whole thing reminds webOS, the mobile operating system from Palm, which now belongs to HP.

+ + + Mac OS for $ 30 + + +

[19.33 Clock] More new features: the exchange of files should be “Airdrop” facilitate a device-wide drag-and-drop. The new mail has an improved search function, a beautiful mail-threaded sorting – and of course no more scroll bars. The new Mac OS there is not on DVD, but over the Internet via the App Store: a heavy 4-gigabyte download. The award provides jubilation: $ 29.99, a license will be valid for all Macs that you have. The final version will be released in July.

So far, all very nice, gives the developer audience applause. Slowly increase the voltage, where are the big innovations?

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[19.20 Clock] Better promotion of the Apple universe: The recently introduced Mac App Store to be the most successful software store, with more sales than Best Buy or Office Depot. Schiller says that developers can multiply their sales when they use the Mac Store.

Lion with a “Resume” function is introduced: it represents a work environment in a program the next time, restore the way you left it, including all documents and windows. Files are automatically saved, a version management allows the jump to previous versions. “Release” is the ninth new feature is introduced. Will Schiller about every 250 “Lion” new show?

The bottom line is we can say that “Lion” is to make the users life easier by keeping its documents, no matter which automatically secures and holds copies of old versions, if you want to undo changes.

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