When was icloud announced

Newsroom Open Newsroom navigation Close Newsroom navigation. App Store. Apple Arcade. Company News. Store News. Apple Introduces iCloud. When anything changes on one of your devices, all of your devices are wirelessly updated almost instantly. The first three cloud-based apps with the service are mail, contacts, and calendar.

When a user makes a new contact or calendar entry on his or her iOS device, the entry is automatically put in the cloud and then pushed to all other iOS devices. If you ever change that information, it is automatically updated on all devices. For example, if you create a Pages document, the app will upload and store it in the cloud and push it to all your devices.

The Photo Stream app lets you automatically push photos to your other iOS devices. When you take a photo on an iPhone outside, you can go home and all your photos will be on your iPad. Photo Stream will be built into iPhoto on the Mac, which connects the Apple ecosystem of products even further. Apple will store the last photos you take on your device, while a Mac or PC will be able to store all photos.

There are 54 million Mac users worldwide, and Mac sales have outpaced the PC industry as a whole each quarter for the past five years. That would make it the largest mobile OS in the world in terms of device sales. Apple impressed further with the numbers: The company said its App Store currently offers , apps, including 90, specifically designed for the 25 million iPads it has sold so far. In the latest version, iOS 5, Apple said notifications will no longer interrupt your tasks, Twitter will be integrated throughout the operating system, browsers can be tabbed, and things you want to read can be synced across multiple iOS devices.

It will also feature location-sensitive reminders, the ability to take photos from the lock screen, a game center and a BlackBerry Messaging-like application called iMessage. Again, mentioning the "post-PC world," Apple said iOS devices no longer need to be synced with a PC to be activated or receive updates. The new iOS 5 will be sent to users this fall. Apple AAPL , Fortune typically keeps the content of its keynotes a secret, but this year the company offered up a press release a week in advance saying Jobs would show off iCloud as well as its new operating systems for Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads.

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