What Is The iCloud Services

What Is The iCloud Services ? Apple’s iCloud has a set of free new services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all your devices.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, by introducing a service that shares files across different Internet-linked devices, takes another step toward sidelining the personal-computer industry he pioneered.

Jobs, who helped popularize home computers with the Apple II and the Mac in the 1970s and ‘80s, is counting on the new iCloud product to let users synchronize and access data on Apple devices and Windows PCs running iTunes.
The free iCloud services include:
• Former MobileMe services. Contacts, Calendar and Mail have been re-architected and rewritten to work seamlessly with iCloud.
• The App Store and iBookstore. Now download purchased iOS apps and books to all your devices, not just the device they were purchased on. In addition, the App Store and iBookstore now let you see your purchase history, and can download any apps and books to any iOS device (up to 10 devices) at no additional cost.
• iCloud Backup. Automatically and securely backs up your iOS devices to iCloud daily over Wi-Fi when you charge your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Backed up content includes purchased music, apps and books, Camera Roll (photos and videos), device settings and app data.
• iCloud Storage. Seamlessly stores all documents created using iCloud Storage APIs, and automatically pushes them to all your devices. When you change a document on any device, iCloud automatically pushes the changes to all your devices. Users get up to 5GB of free storage for their mail, documents and backup. The storage for music, apps and books purchased from Apple, and the storage required by Photo Stream doesn’t count towards this 5GB total.
• iCloud’s Photo Stream. Automatically uploads the photos you take or import on any of your devices and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices and computers. So you can use your iPhone to take a dozen photos of your friends during the afternoon baseball game, and they will be ready to share with the entire group on your iPad (or even Apple TV®) when you return home.
• iTunes in the Cloud. Lets you download your previously purchased iTunes music to all your iOS devices at no additional cost, and new music purchases can be downloaded automatically to all your devices. In addition, music not purchased from iTunes can replace your music with a 256 kbps AAC DRM-free version if Apple can match it to the over 18 million songs in the iTunes Store.