What is iCloud ?

A cloud is actually just one cloud. It is the cloud (sometimes even seen with a capital C). As one wry observer put it recently on Twitter, the cloud is basically a fancy term for the Internet. It’s the space up out there in the ether that doesn’t exist on your computer or your mobile phone but on some mega servers stored in undergroud, climate controlled conditions in places like Texas with more real estate than fertile land.

So, when Steve Jobs talks about iCloud, he means a space waiting on Apple’s servers for you to use as you will; somewhere to store files, back them up or actually just use as a bridge between all your devices.

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