By Jason Boog on Galley Cat, June 6, 2011
Today at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled a new set of cloud computing tools and revealed that users have downloaded 130 million books from the iBookstore.The company did not separate that figure into paid and free eBooks. In addition, the overall Apple App Store has counted 14 billion downloads and paid more than $2.5 billion to developers for these purchases–a bustling market for publishers to explore.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs also unveiled iCloud, a new storage platform for Apple customers.
All users with the new iOS 5 update on their devices will get 5GB of free cloud storage to backup writings, photos and music. This GalleyCat editor uses cloud-based programs like Dropbox and Evernote every day–do you think these companies can survive Apple’s new cloud push?
2 comments:
I trust that people realize that you don't need this app to use Find my iPhone -- that's a feature built into iOS which can be accessed from any web browser. The app itself is only useful to put onto another iOS device to track your first lost device.
Apple could bring a iShare Books function, or something to make it more friendly. I enjoy all my books on the iBooks App, but I feel it is still missing out on some crazy stuff it could have, even more with iCloud rising.
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