Although the popular Apple product, iCloud, has been in the hands of the general public for a few weeks now, few seem to understand the full functionality of the product. The iCloud was meant for more than simply finding your lost device, or backing up your data. iCloud is meant for you to have seamless connectivity throughout all of your iOS devices.
Before iCloud service, you could purchase an item on one device and not have that item on another unless you transferred that item to a shared computer and manually synced the new item with your other devices. In this day and age very few people have the time to actively worry about managing and updating multiple devices. People just want their devices to work, and work well.
Assuming you have the latest version of iTunes (10.5) then the iCloud service is available to you on your computer. What Apple does now, is store all of the information from what your purchase through their services and allows you to access it. Before if you accidentally deleted it, of lost your hard drive, you would either have to repurchase it, or jump through hoops to get redeem codes from apple to download all of your items again. This could get tedious if you had a lot of it. You can now access your purchased items under the “Purchased” link in the “Quick Links” section of the iTunes Store. Once there you can search through any items that you have purchased under your Apple ID.
With the Apple iCloud service, each user is given the option of receiving a new @me.com email address as well as access to the syncing of all your data throughout all of your devices. Once an item is added to your calendar, or reminders, it will be added to all of the iOS devices under that Apple ID.
Apple iCloud is just the first step in device integrations services. With this development in technology Apple devices are now free to leave the house and start their own lives, finding other devices to fall in love with and eventually sync with. The only question that everyone is now asking themselves is, “What will Apple come up with next?”
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