With its biggest ever focus on cloud services and omnipresent data, it appears baffling that Apple chose to kill iDisk.
The service, which has been around in some form for a decade, was axed over the weekend as Apple pulled the plug on its lacklustre MobileMe service -- the paid-for collection of web services now replaced with the promising (and free) iCloud suite.
It allowed users to store a few gigabytes of data online, access that data on a Mac through OS X and share files with public users. But it seems such a service -- or at least this incarnation of such a service -- was deemed superfluous to iCloud's requirements.
Looking at some history, this just doesn't make sense. Killing iDisk without creating a successor doesn't appear to be Apple's plan at all.
By: Nate Lanxon, Edited by: Olivia Solon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/02/apple-idisk-successor-icloud
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