Apple's iCloud Forecasts Stormy Future for Google - Small Business Computing

Apple’s iCloud Forecasts Stormy Future for Google

Written By
James Maguire
James Maguire
Jun 2, 2011
1 minute read

With a gigantic, hush-hush data center set to open in North Carolina and a major cloud-computing announcement due next week, Apple’s on the edge of changing up online computing in a big way.

Not much is known about the new service other than its name with the now-familiar nomenclature — iCloud. And yet, industry watchers seem to agree that whatever Apple has up its core, it’s shaping up to be a game-changer. Read the details as told by our sister site, Datamation.



Apple’s iCloud service, expected to be unveiled next week, completes a perfect storm of features that could accelerate Apple’s growing dominance of computing and seriously undermine Google’s cloud strategy.


Read the complete article: How Apple’s iCloud Will Rain On Google’s Parade



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