Apple will unveil its newest product iCloud tomorrow (Monday June 6, 2011).
So what is it? iCloud is somewhat of a replacement for its current MobileMe cloud service that includes e-mail, calendar, photo sharing and storage as well as Find My iPhone and bookmark syncing. However, the iCloud will include a streaming music service.
iCloud is set to rival recent services from Google and Amazon. The service will allow you to store all of your music in “the cloud” and stream it from your account.
More will be revealed when Apple officially announces the service. The cost is going to be an interesting contributing factor. At the moment, MobileMe costs $99 a year per subscription. The question is how can Apple charge you to stream music you have already paid for?
With storage moving to a cloud service, the need to huge hard drives will start to diminish. Once content is stored remotely, Apple’s iPad will take on a whole new importance.
Steve Jobs will officially announce iCloud at 10am June 6 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
