“Speaking on Apple’s fiscal first-quarter conference call, Cook talked about iCloud,” Larry Dignan reports for CNET. “He noted that iCloud had 85 million customers signed up and said, ‘The response from customers has been incredible. It solves a lot of problems that customers were having and made their lives much easier. And so I see it as a fundamental shift, recognizing that people had numerous devices, and they wanted the bulk of their content in the cloud, and easily accessible from all of the devices. I think we’re seeing the response from that, and with 85 million customers in just three months, It is just not a product. It is a strategy for the next decade.'”
Dignan writes, “Cook is absolutely correct that the iCloud is a strategy for the next decade. The catch is that many others have the same outlook.”
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