“I have been an avid watcher of all things Apple since 1977 and have been following them professionally since 1981 when I came to Creative Strategies and became its first full-time PC analyst,” Tim Bajarin writes for PC Magazine. “Apple is a company that has had many ups and downs, but one thing is certain about it. It was on the leading edge with the Apple 2, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. And with its new iCloud service, it is about to show the industry how to move from the PC era to the post-PC era by elegantly making the cloud the center of the new Apple driven universe.”
Bajarin writes, “I consider this one of Apple’s most important announcements of this young decade. Yes, the iPad is right up there with it, but it is the iCloud that I believe that will actually define Apple over the next 10 years. More importantly, it will be at the center of its future devices and services road map… Interestingly, while much of the device focus was on the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad in last weeks launch, Apple also said that since Apple TV is iOS cloud-based as well, it will be able to become one of the devices that can receive your pictures and music and be kept in sync as part of your iCloud ecosystem. But if Apple has shifted its focus from the Mac or PC as the hub of our digital lifestyles to the cloud, then that means that it, at least in theory, could create a lot of other iOS-based devices that connect to and sync with the iCloud.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.