Apple iCloud Beta Launches
The official Apple iCloud website is now live for developers and is currently in the new beta phase, where Apple wishes to get some a few things finalised before the service goes live for its customers. One of the key announcements at WWDC earlier this year, iCloud will essentially make a huge set of MobileMe services free, and sync personal data like Contacts, Calendar, Mail, iCloud for Pages, Find My iPhone and iWork.
The service allows users to store data such as music files for download to multiple devices such as iPhones, iPods, iPads, and personal computers running Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows on computer servers owned by Apple. It also replaces Apple's MobileMe program, acting as a data syncing center for email, contacts, calendars, bookmark, notes, to-do lists and other data.
Apple will offer – iOS users 5GB of free online storage, however the interesting part is that the company has also revealed the official pricing for those who want more storage. For an additional 10GB of storage users will have to pay $20 per year, 20GB of additional storage comes at $40 per year, and 50GB of additional storage is priced at $100 per year.
The service allows users to store data such as music files for download to multiple devices such as iPhones, iPods, iPads, and personal computers running Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows on computer servers owned by Apple. It also replaces Apple's MobileMe program, acting as a data syncing center for email, contacts, calendars, bookmark, notes, to-do lists and other data.
Apple will offer – iOS users 5GB of free online storage, however the interesting part is that the company has also revealed the official pricing for those who want more storage. For an additional 10GB of storage users will have to pay $20 per year, 20GB of additional storage comes at $40 per year, and 50GB of additional storage is priced at $100 per year.
