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I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other. I would suspect AAPL would be

I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other. I would suspect AAPL would be the buyer. It is a big risk for all iOS apps to be backed by infrastructure belonging to other companies they compete with in consumer devices. I think AAPL would want to make another option available.

jandrese 7y ago
I guess iCloud is hosted on AWS? I never actually looked. It doesn't seem to be that big of an issue for Apple though. And if it did happen I guess that wouldn't be so bad, I mean it could be worse. Oracle could decide to get into the cloud business by buying out DO.
- vira28 7y ago
  thats a good point. For Oracle they should be appealing.
- kickopotomus 7y ago
  If I remember correctly, iCloud is actually hosted by Google.
  - ogre_codes 7y ago
    This was never the case. They are self hosted and for a while they hosted a fair bit of data on Azure & AWS. Not sure if they still use Azure and AWS, but iCloud has never been on Google's infra. (Other Apple content has been served by Google at various times, maps being the big/ obvious one)
    - kickopotomus 7y ago
      As of 2018, I believe they moved it to Google[1][2]. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-cloud-platform-icloud-confirmation https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-clo... [2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-google-cloud-for-icloud.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-googl...
      - ksec 7y ago
        They are hosted on all three, AWS, GCP, and Azure as well as on their own Server in their own DC.
- sdan 7y ago
  I'm pretty sure iCloud is hosted on Apple's servers now. A couple months ago on HN, a graph of cloud spending for the big Ns came out and Apple has slowly moved everything onto their own server in 2017/2018
awb 7y ago
> I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other Companies buy competitors all the time.

jandrese 7y ago

I guess iCloud is hosted on AWS? I never actually looked. It doesn't seem to be that big of an issue for Apple though. And if it did happen I guess that wouldn't be so bad, I mean it could be worse. Oracle could decide to get into the cloud business by buying out DO.

vira28 7y ago
thats a good point. For Oracle they should be appealing.
kickopotomus 7y ago
If I remember correctly, iCloud is actually hosted by Google.
- ogre_codes 7y ago
  This was never the case. They are self hosted and for a while they hosted a fair bit of data on Azure & AWS. Not sure if they still use Azure and AWS, but iCloud has never been on Google's infra. (Other Apple content has been served by Google at various times, maps being the big/ obvious one)
  - kickopotomus 7y ago
    As of 2018, I believe they moved it to Google[1][2]. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-cloud-platform-icloud-confirmation https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-clo... [2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-google-cloud-for-icloud.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-googl...
    - ksec 7y ago
      They are hosted on all three, AWS, GCP, and Azure as well as on their own Server in their own DC.
sdan 7y ago
I'm pretty sure iCloud is hosted on Apple's servers now. A couple months ago on HN, a graph of cloud spending for the big Ns came out and Apple has slowly moved everything onto their own server in 2017/2018

awb 7y ago

> I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other Companies buy competitors all the time.