That all-important “one more thing” from Apple’s software presentation is part of the iCloud Web application and storage suite. It was a coup of sorts — and Apple’s win over competitors could be attributed to Jobs’ experience at Pixar Animation Studios, which he co-founded.
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In that interview eight years ago, Jobs described the vast divide between technology and entertainment executives, and he talked about how he bridged it.“One of the things I learned at Pixar is the technology industries and the content industries do not understand each other,” he said. “In Silicon Valley and at most technology companies, I swear that most people still think the creative process is a bunch of guys in their early 30s, sitting on a couch, drinking beer and thinking of jokes. No, they really do. That’s how television is made, they think; that’s how movies are made.”
Likewise, record executives can’t relate to technical people, Jobs said.
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Because technology companies treat record labels like clearing houses for content, Silicon Valley bigwigs have trouble getting through the door, Jobs suggested. So it was perhaps Jobs’ expertise from Pixar, during his exodus period from Apple, that has given him the edge to secure risky deals with entertainment giants first.
#20 Keep rationalizing macfan. Your god was not the only one who plagiarized PARC’s work.
But hey, if you want to keep being stupid, that’s fine by me. Keep giving away your money for your ignorance
#16 You mean, the daughter he didn’t want to accept as his?
It’s going to be interesting to see how this works out. This is the “deal” with the content providers.
iTunes Match
If you want all the benefits of iTunes in the Cloud for music you haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution. It lets you store your entire collection, including music you’ve ripped from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. For just $24.99 a year.2
Here’s how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to your iCloud library for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 18 million songs in the iTunes Store, most of your music is probably already in iCloud. All you have to upload is what iTunes can’t match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. And all the music iTunes matches plays back at 256-Kbps iTunes Plus quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality.
http://apple.com/icloud/features/
So many ignorants & lazy people out there, it’s gonna be a hit for those who like to be ripped off
#20 – Say what you want about DOS 3, but it was far more reliable and stable than ANY OS we have today.
The “pedro count” is high with iCloud. That means iCloud is likely to be a huge success.
In # 22 pedro said: #16 You mean, the daughter he didn’t want to accept as his?
Huh?!?
He ever called the successor to the Apply III after her.
What did you think the Lisa was named after?
I don’t care that you’re an Apple hater, (Why should I?) but at least get your facts straight.
#27 That was after many attempts from the mother of the child to be recognized. That woman was called golddigger many a time before they guy finally accepted her.
BTW, two huge flops there, even copying Xerox: Apple III and Apple Lisa.
The reason for using digital fingerprinting techniques for identifying the tunes is that Apple wil be able to identify and restore from their own collection all of the music that you have on you iPod or stored on some digital iTunes collection.
Eventually, I predict that for some of us, guys with iPod Classics and still not enough room, this will turn into a streaming service where Apple will enable local storage of a variable part of your collection on your local device.
I have a couple of 1GB iPods, a 15GB iPod, a 60GB iPod, a 160GB iPod and I have my music collection on a 320GB drive off of my MacBookPro. (With redundant device back ups and the whole mess archived onto DVDs.)
My older iPods won’t be able to take advantage because they’re not WiFi connected but if they were…
If I had an iPhone, and/or an iPad (soon, soon) I would be able to download any part of my music collection onto any wirelessly connected iPod Touch or iPhone or iPad which is registered to my account.
Its not streaming as such but the ability to get what is mine from any device served up to me on demand.
In #28 pedro said: two huge flops there, even copying Xerox: Apple III and Apple Lisa.
Nobody’s saying otherwise.
IBM has has plenty of turkeys, so has Coke, so has Pepsi, so has McDonald’s, so has Ford (remember the Edsel?) so has Studebaker so had GM so was …
What’s your point?
#27 Like Weiner, Jobs played the lie card stating he was sterile, so Lisa couldn’t be his. He recognized her when she was around 12 years old.
He’s the story of the dead-beat dad from the book of truth:
“Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.[78] She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity.”
#29 The perfect rationalization of a macfan. Kudos.
I’m going to make a simple observation. Apple wants the high end high mark up share of the market. The low end low prophet per item share is available to anybody that wants it. Apple will not compete for that share of the market. This does not mean that Apple is having everything its way. It means it doesn’t care about some parts of the market and the magic number for Apple always has been 30% profit.
If you live inside the Apple world then what Apple offered is a useful convenience. To anybody else what it offered doesn’t impress. I I have 218 GB of music and almost all of it was ripped from a CD (yes I do have a lot of boxes of CDs. I still have almost every CD I ever bought.) with only a few downloaded songs from Amazon. Nothing was from Itunes. What Apple is offering does not interest me at all.
#31 “Like Weiner…”
Oh, now it’s a right wing obsession. Now it’s making a twisted sort of sense.
#33 No, simply that a lot of lefties like you have made it very clear that Jobs is a “progressive” corporate head and just because of that, he gets a free pass and a big suck up from lefties.
There are tons of examples from the repukes as well. I guess Schwartzenegger is not an apt comparison because he recognized the kid right away (his marriage was quite clearly only for political advantage), he only kept it hidden, whereas Wiener was quite adamant in his lying. Wiener’s was shorter than Jobs (hahaha, what a pun) because of current day communications availability (internet, etc.). Had Wiener made those lies back in 78, I’m sure he would have gotten away with it, just like Jobs did.
If you didn’t like Wiener, how ’bout John Edwards? Another dead beat who didn’t want to acknowledge the kid. I think Edwards’ is more of a fit.
#30: I say otherwise, having worked with both.
The Apple III was an excellent machine that I used as a programmer to develop software. I never encountered the chip problems that some runs of the machine had. That was a manufacturing issue, not functional issue.
And as for the Lisa, it was really put on the market to test the concepts of a windowing environment outside of the PARC labs. Given the absurd price and assorted faults, I’m sure they never expected to sell many. Anyone who did was a guinea pig in designing for what was to become the Mac.
What I always find humorous about Pedro’s apoplectic attacks on Apple is he is an ardent capitalist, knocking one of the best corporations in the world.
Yup, a daft conspiracy theory. I’m thinking the US harvested Bin Laden’s organs for Steve Jobs.
Article is spot on. Jobs knew early on that “content is king” is the mantra for success and he set out a strategic plan to win. Pixar and now on the board of Disney. One smart progressive!
Cloud based computing and storage is critical for succeeding in mobility. Play content anywhere, anytime on any device. The battle lines are forming with Amazon and even Walmart joining Microsoft, Google and Apple – all progressive thinking giants.
The Teabaggers and Pukes still want to buy their Lawrence Welk shitty tunes on shrink wrapped CD’s. Store it in rotating floppies and drives.
I’m very proud of Mr Jobs, Apple and some day just may by a Mac. Unlikely, but maybe just one.
#35 Because after the Apple III, mac became just a copy factory. They did their business praying on ignorants that needed things easy; spoon-fed computer “users”. On top of that, their business was to belittle all other computer companies only to eat crow each and everytime with all their macfan fans having automatic amnesia on how their “new tech” was shit just before their god put it on their machines.
#37 The always pathetic Dallas. Only ignorants like you don’t know how to create your own cloud and need daddy Steve to do it for you.
Anyhoo, away from loon land and back to technology.
There was a couple of shots of the inside of the data centre behind this thing. Besides the HP racks there were gobs of teradata data appliances. That’s a real different tack from Googles/Amazons of the world with their bigtable/nosql approach and Oracle’s/IBM offerings. Kind of fits when you think about it, especially with no share parallelism thing and analytics out of the box. It could the biggest concurrency problem that any RDBMS vendor has tackled.
I also wonder about collisions in the document format when shared across devices (yes I know they also support key value pairs – that’s baked into Objective-C so they gotta). Document formats are finicky for diffing and resolution. Word, Pages and even Google Docs with a non-web client are notoriously flakey for version synching. I’m going to take a look at the API’s to see how they handle it.
#38 you old smelly ass is still living in the 90′s where the ‘gadget’ is what you think people want to buy. Today, buyers (esp younger ones) are buy EXPERIENCES!!
You’re so pathetically backwards and wish Dr. Kervorkian was here to treat you.