“If, as Steve Jobs says, software is the soul of Apple’s products, hardware their brains and sinew, then iCloud is their memory–and soon perhaps one of their biggest selling points as well,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD. “Certainly it’s a feature that will differentiate Apple’s already well-differentiated products even further from the competition.”
“iCloud’s ability to automatically and seamlessly integrate not just data, but the applications that use it, across Macs and iOS devices both will likely cement customer loyalty for Apple products in a way we’ve not yet seen–even in Apple monomaniacs,” Paczkowski reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Uhhh… Sell Apple product loyalty someplace else, we’re all stocked up here. (We can’t get more loyal, but, boy, after using iOS 5, iTunes 10.5, and some iCloud features for a very short time now, we’re already at: “How the —- did we live without this?!”
Paczkowski continues, “Once you’ve gotten used to having your apps and media managed through iCloud, it’s going to be awfully tough to leave it–not because it’s difficult to make the switch to a new platform, but because it will undoubtedly be so unpleasant to give up the effortless mobile data ubiquity it provides.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yup. 🙂
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