Saturday, June 4, 2011

Considering iCloud's potential against existing cloud services

There have been any number of rumors floating around in the last day or so about Apple's Time Capsule integrating with the new iCloud service. Ars Technica reports that the updated Capsules might mirror Apple TV's CPU strength with capable A4 or A5 processors that do more than just perform backups and store data locally. Here at TUAW, we think the story could be a lot bigger that just pre-fetching and caching updates for computer-free mobile updates.

You don't build a really, really, we mean really big data center like that in North Carolina and use it only for streaming music, do you? Especially when startups like Pogoplug, Dolly Drive and CrashPlan have demonstrated just how useful remote storage can be.

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Considering iCloud's potential against existing cloud services originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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