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Apple's Secret Cloud Weapon?


While reading this article I could not agree with many of his points. Mainly because I extremly dislike how apple does wall in its customers to use their products. Don't get me wrong they produce amazing products, that allow users a very slick and streamlined interface.  Like recently my father has been given an iPad 2 and is now playing around with it like a little kid.  He is not tech savvy but he can navigate and is starting to figure out the device.  Apple is a very smart company and if we were a communist globe it would work perfectly.  But people choose to by products outside the apple family and as apple unveils their latest and greatest contribution to the technology realm it is apparent that the iCloud will be used to tie people even closer to the apple family.  I could ramble about this problem all day long but people will continue to buy a product that works well for them and is reasonably priced.  At the moment Apple has been doing the best job of packaging a product and getting people riled up to buy it even if its "Slightly" over priced.


Oh and back to what the actual article is written about.  A short synopsis is that Google and Amazon missed the mark with their music options because they store your music in the cloud and then deliver it on call.  Apple has taken a different approach allowing users to sync their devices and automatically update a music collection that is stored on the device.   My only problem with this plan is that my iPhone is only 32GB that is not able to hold my 15000 songs and hundreds of hours of podcasts.  This system of whisper sync has been in existence for a long time but Apple has never tapped into the option.  I feel that Google Music and Amazon Music are in a different category than iClouds new music system

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