Hot Topic Friday June 10, 2011

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, miraculously the energized bunny of consumer electronics, announces Apple’s i-Cloud service. Apple is not the first on the horizon and probably not the last; i-Cloud joins the big sky of cloud capitalists of  Amazon, Google, and Facebook.  Right now, like the others, i-Cloud is free and will allow Apple device users the ability to sync content across all their i-toys. In library land, OCLC owns the cloud but like real clouds it will be fleeting as others get the idea. Unfortunately, no one forecasts the cloud will lower costs.

Oh, by the way, Jobs also is killing the MAC (and the PC it goes without saying…)

Your links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/technology/07apple.html?_r=1&ref=technology

http://smarthouse.com.au/Home_Office/Industry/C5P4S3B8

http://www.apple.com/icloud/

http://tinyurl.com/42rul2o

Leah Hinds

Leah was appointed Executive Director of the Charleston Conference in 2017, and has served in various roles with the Charleston Information Group, LLC, since 2004. Prior to working for the conference, she was Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions for the College of Charleston for four years. She lives in a small town near Columbia, SC, with her husband and two kids where they raise a menagerie of farm animals.