Whether one is a PC user or a Mac evangelist, one must recognize Apple’s ability to introduce technology that changes industries as well as the way people work and communicate. Apple’s first entrée into the cloud was the iTunes virtual music store. Today, iTunes offers millions of songs for download to a variety of devices which include PCs, Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, and other handheld devices. More than just music on a web-based storage device, iTunes laid a foundation for scalable e-commerce, high-bandwidth download transactions, and user device independence. Apple’s iCloud extends Apple’s existing functionality by providing users with a cloud-based storage facility for their phones, music, videos, books, and other documents. Using iCloud as a centralized virtual storage facility, users can quickly exchange digital content among their various devices. In fact, users can customize the iCloud settings to make the file exchange seamless and automatic. In other words, if a user stores a digital file within iCloud, behind the scenes, iCloud software will push the content to each of the user’s registered devices, as shown in FIGURE 6-4. Case Study: Discuss the advantages of using cloud-based-storage solutions such as iCloud.

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Whether one is a PC user or a Mac evangelist, one must recognize Apple’s ability to introduce technology that changes industries as well as the way people work and communicate. Apple’s first entrée into the cloud was the iTunes virtual music store. Today, iTunes offers millions of songs for download to a variety of devices which include PCs, Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, and other handheld devices. More than just music on a web-based storage device, iTunes laid a foundation for scalable e-commerce, high-bandwidth download transactions, and user device independence. Apple’s iCloud extends Apple’s existing functionality by providing users with a cloud-based storage facility for their phones, music, videos, books, and other documents. Using iCloud as a centralized virtual storage facility, users can quickly exchange digital content among their various devices. In fact, users can customize the iCloud settings to make the file exchange seamless and automatic. In other words, if a user stores a digital file within iCloud, behind the scenes, iCloud software will push the content to each of the user’s registered devices, as shown in FIGURE 6-4. Case Study: Discuss the advantages of using cloud-based-storage solutions such as iCloud.

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