Apple iCloud Release Tomorrow
For a long time now it has been said that Apple will open up their MobileMe platform to compete against Google’s free to use SaaS Products (GMail, GDocs, etc.). With Amazon’s Recent push into their mp3 cloud player and the huge market share that iTunes holds, it makes sense that the MobileMe product will soon interact with iTunes and users will be able to store their music in some sort of online HD, However the question about how Apple can charge users to stream music they already own lingers.
More will be revealed when Apple officially announces the service. The cost is going to be an interesting contributing factor. At the moment, MobileMe costs $99 a year per subscription.
With storage moving to a cloud service, the need to huge hard drives will start to diminish. Once content is stored remotely, Apple’s iPad will take on a whole new importance.
Steve Jobs will officially announce iCloud at 10am June 6 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
