When was icloud launch

Store News. Apple to Launch iCloud on October When content changes on one device, all your other devices are updated automatically and wirelessly. Any unmatched songs are uploaded to iCloud so you can play songs, albums or playlists from your music library on your devices. When you use Pages on another iOS device, you can open the same document with your latest changes and pick up editing or reading right where you left off.

Purchased apps and books can be automatically downloaded to your devices, not just the device they were purchased on. If you replace your iOS device, just enter your Apple ID and password during setup and iCloud restores your new device. When you change a document on any device, iCloud automatically pushes the changes to all your devices. Users will be able to buy even more storage, with details announced when iCloud ships this fall.

To save space, the last 1, photos are stored on each device so they can be viewed or moved to an album to save forever. Macs and PCs will store all photos from the Photo Stream, since they have more storage. Current MobileMe subscribers will be allowed to keep their email address when they shift to iCloud, and can move their email, contacts, calendar and bookmarks to the new service.

MobileMe users have had their subscriptions extended to June 20, , and will be able to access information not migrated -- including the files they've previously stored on iDisk, the service's 20GB online storage locker -- until then.

In June, Jobs wasn't unhappy to announce MobileMe's vanishing act. MobileMe stumbled badly after its launch, dogged by problems ranging from slow synchronization to an day email outage. ICloud is a free service that will replace Apple's previous cloud offering called MobileMe. It has been plagued by bugs, and Fortune reported that Jobs lambasted the development group for its failure.

Only the iTunes Match portion of iCloud will require users to pay a fee. They're the ones that brought me MobileMe,'" Jobs said Monday.

The CEO, looking frail, received a standing ovation from the thousands of developers in attendance. He started the conference by introducing new software for Apple's devices. Calling software the "soul" of Apple's products, he handed off the first demonstration, the new Macintosh operating system called Lion, to Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing head.

Lion will enable multi-touch gestures to control Mac applications and does away with scrollbars: Gestures will be able to control in-app scrolling, navigation between apps and will allow users to take apps into full-screen mode. The new OS also carries several backup improvements, including a feature called "resume," which takes you back to where you were when you last shut down the system, right down to what text you had selected.