Monday, 2 July 2012

Apple kills iDisk, but don't count iCloud out of the Dropbox game yet



icloud

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


Continue reading...



via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/02/apple-idisk-successor-icloud

No comments:

Post a Comment