Apple Inc. CEO
Steve Jobs strode back into the spotlight on today to unveil the
iCloud, a music-streaming service that the company hopes will power its next stage of growth and popularize Web-based consumer services.Jobs’ decision to appear such at events often is news in itself, since he is a pancreatic cancer survivor who went on his third medical leave in January for an undisclosed condition.
iCloud underscores a major shift taking place in the tech world as users’ information moves from gadgets to the cloud, where it is stored on remote servers and accessible from any device with an Internet connection – a crucial capability for users increasingly accustomed to performing a variety of tasks on the move.
“We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device,” said Jobs, according to a live blog of his remarks at the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. “”We’re going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud.”
Apple described iCloud as a service that is integrated with apps and “stores your content, and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices.”
Source: Chicago Tribune
Apple, legendary for keeping its agenda under wraps, has been unusually open about what it plans to show at its annual developers’ conference, a five-day extravaganza for developers who rely on Apple for much of their livelihood.