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As Steve Jobs talked about during the keynote, the idea is to mostly remove the paradigm of files and folders from people's minds. I imagine the iCloud APIs wil
by Timothee 15y ago
As Steve Jobs talked about during the keynote, the idea is to mostly remove the paradigm of files and folders from people's minds. I imagine the iCloud APIs will allow you to hook into iCloud as easily as you would local storage. Which means developer wouldn't need to learn much more to enable it. Plus, it will be single sign-on and you know that every one of your users has it. (no need to explain what Dropbox or cloud storage is)
And of course, for users, it'd be much easier because you don't have to learn what Dropbox is, what syncing is, etc. You open an app you know well and your documents are there. Period. No worries about what device you're actually using, or what file you want to sync or not.
The keyword really is "seamless", for users mostly but for developers too.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoHow would you know your users have it? Isn't it opt-in?
- Timothee 15y agoMy understanding is that it's tied to your Apple ID and the whole thing is free (up to certain limits). So if a user has your app, they have an Apple ID and they have some iCloud storage. However, it is likely that, as a user, you have to allow an app to use it or not. What I meant, basically, is that you can prompt the user to authorize iCloud, but the user will not have to be taught what it is or to create an account for it. They should have it.