“Some people will tell you that because the oddsmakers aren’t expecting a new iPhone from Apple today, this Steve Jobs keynote isn’t a very big deal,” Jon Fortt reports for CNET.
“They’re wrong,” Fortt reports. “This is the most important Apple announcement in recent memory.”
Fortt reports, “iCloud, the service Apple promised to announce, represents more than an updated iTunes service for the era of modern data centers. It is probably Steve Jobs’s attempt to redefine the “Digital Hub” and finally succeed in an area where he has failed repeatedly: web services. If it works, Jobs will have proven he can go toe-to-toe with arch-rival Google on its home turf. If not, Jobs will have given the world a peek at Apple’s Achilles Heel.”
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