Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed a whole stream of new Apple services, most importantly the iCloud, at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. This service will allow Apple product users to combine all of their content across all Apple products via this cloud-based system.
“We’re going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud,” said Jobs. Jobs described iCloud as a way to wirelessly store all digital content to all iOS devices. All of this information will be integrated on all iOS devices as well as your Mac.
So, if you add a contact to your iPhone, the cloud will also update this information on your iPad and PC. The iCloud service will be available to all Apple product consumers for free and will back up your content and work with several different apps. iBooks, App Store and iWork will all be a part of the Cloud to sink all of your content across all of your devices.
Jobs also announced a new service called iTunes Match, a $24.99 service that allows customers to upload all music, not purchased from iTunes, to be backed up on the cloud by scanning and matching the songs. This service, unlike Googles, will take only minutes and has no limits to storage.
Mac OSX Lion (an updated Mac operating system, which synchs all of your Apple devices) was also unveiled by Jobs, available for download for $29.00 via the app store.
