iOS

Jun 6 2011

iCloud Feature – Contacts, Calendar, and Mail

While these features will not work differently than the me.com days, we find several powerful improvements.  Contacts again will sync to all your devices, Mail brings you all the original features, except it’s now free and will push emails you receive to all your devices, and iCloud will keep all the folders in sync.

Calendar has some great additions to it.  The ability to share calendars so an entire family can keep track of appointments and such.  Put your kids receipt date of grade report and a reminder that even they will see that there’s no escaping giving it to you.  All events are pushed to everyone else who you provide access to.  Great for Teams or Workgroups.

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Jun 6 2011

iCloud Feature – Apps, Books, Documents, and Backup

What would an iCloud service be without some way to manage files and back them up?  Not much of one.  Apple makes this super simple by having this built into their Apps such as Pages and Numbers, which released a few weeks ago had the functionality built in.  So now you can cloud your files and access them from any of your devices.

For your Apps again with the iTunes past purchases, you get your Apps past purchases.  There are apps I’ve bought and I forget about them only to be surprised I dont have to pay because I paid before.  Now I can just look at a list and see what I’m missing.  When you purchase an app, it’s available to all your other devices as well through a push feature.

iBooks now will sync across all your devices tied to your iCloud.  It will remember where you left off and sync this all to your other devices so you can resume what you were doing later even if it’s a different device.

API’s  Apple hit the nail on the head with this product and the API’s available to developers allow them to build this functionality into their apps so you can get the best features through 3rd party apps from the app store as they become available.

Backup and Restoration – OMG this is awesome.  If you purchase a new iPhone or had to replace it, and it’s part of your iCloud, just enter your account info and it’s all synced wirelessly to your new device and you can pick up where you left off.  No more picking up the pieces if you ever had to replace your iPhone or iPad, finally.

iPhones without iTunes as well no need for a PC to activate or even use your iPhone.

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Jun 6 2011

iCloud Feature – Photo Stream

With iOS 5, your phone became that much more powerful as a camera.  First we finally have a hardware switch to take pictures (Volume Up), second the camera app is instant along with being able to launch it while the phone is locked.  There’s a slew of other features, but the biggest one is Photo Stream.  This free iCloud service will upload your last thousand photos to iCloud where they are stored for 30 days.  This is long enough for your other devices to pick them up including the Apple Tv.  If you put a photo inside an album then it’s saved indefinitely up to our account limit which is currently set to 5Gb, but I’m sure you will be able to buy more space.

Why is this cool?  We’ll ever take a photo on your iPhone and wanted to show people on your iPad or your Mac?  Yep that’s why it’s such a big freaking deal.

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IOS 5 To Feature OTA Updates

Jun 4 2011

IOS 5 To Feature OTA Updates

A reported leak over at MacRumors here, talks about some additional language in the App Update page which talks about automatic updates.  Does this also mean that Apple would begin to offer Over The Air updates for IOS along with apps?  Verizon Wireless has long supported OTA for their devices, and Android does this as well.  In the case of Droid they seemed to be pushing 10,000 on one day to check if unknown problems arise and then it picks up in number until everyone is receiving the updates.  Apple could do well to follow a similar update policy to avoid problems that may arise, but their QA also seems to catch most of the major bugs before they’re released.  Again carriers tend to cringe at anything that would increase the amount of data that their customers would be using, although with LTE coming this may be less of a problem because of the bandwidth capabilities of LTE.  IE The faster you download the less time you’re sucking up spectrum.

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