“The guys over at Consomac.fr have found something new in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, codenamed ‘Castle’, it looks like it refers to Apple’s new iCloud service, and apparently Apple intends to use the service for more than just streaming music,” Roland Hutchinson reports for Geeky Gadgets.
“Considering that Apple recently purchased the domain name ‘icloud.com, for a reported $4.5 million, it looks like Apple’s new cloud base service will end up being called iCloud,” Hutchinson reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
Castle in the sky, floating on an iCloud. It fits…
It’s like Don McLean’s song ‘Castles in the Air’
As long as it syncs *all* my stuff *transparently* between devices, I’ll be ecstatic.
What about MobileMe?
Skycastle would be better than iCloud IMHO .
McCloud 😉
i like the ring of SkyNet 😉
Both of them together are a Les Miserables reference.
There is a song in it called:
“Castle on a Cloud”
It’s the network, stupid.
Given the poor price-performance record of iTools/.Mac/MobileMe, I hope Apple wasn’t thinking about yet another rook when they chose iCloud’s codename.
I like how you call it a ‘cloud based service’ as if that actually means something. Cloud just means the server is online, and the data is served via Wifi. It doesn’t tell us anything about what exactly is being served.
We have been dreaming of this ‘thin client’ for a million years… Essentially ‘logging in’ to your home PC from something portable (like a Tablet). For that Apple would have to merge iOS and OS X so the UI’s were compatible…..
😉