Who would have seen it coming? A couple of days back, we had heard the rumors that Apple is looking to venture into cloud
computing and now it seems like Apple has already got hold of icloud.com. Well, that's original, isn't it? Apple has bought the domain from a Swedish company by the name of Xcerion. Reportedly, Apple paid good $4.5 million for the domain name.
According to the rumors, iCloud is going to be much more than just music storage or streaming service. Dubbed as 'Digital locker', the cloud was expected to store your iTunes music so that you can access it from any internet enabled device. You may wonder why one of the world' most innovative companies did not think of this earlier. Cloud storage would effectively means that you do not splurge on devices with bigger storage. You also do not need to re-download content.
But Apple is planning to take it a notch higher and is going to turn it into an online repository of all your content such as videos and photos. But, do not expect the price of your devices to drop since they won't need to have bigger storage capacity. The success of Cloud depends on the connectivity available to you especially mobile coverage.
Somehow, it looks like the tech companies and carrier companies are moving in opposite direction in this regard. While more and more tech companies are urging you to put your data online, while carrier companies are doing away with their unlimited data plans. Carrier companies are also throttling the speed after a limit. While capped data plans will increase the cost of storing data, since in most of the cases you will be paying for a chunk of cloud as well, the slow speed is likely to negatively impact the whole experience as well. Further, recent PSN security breach and Amazon outage have also put a question mark on the robustness of current cloud infrastructure. So, how successful Apple is going to be? Only time will tell.