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>Handsets have been moving in this direction for 3+ years now. And iTools is 11 years old. Don't believe the popular iTools/dotMac/MobileMe is crap argument ei
by mishmash 15y ago
>Handsets have been moving in this direction for 3+ years now.
And iTools is 11 years old. Don't believe the popular iTools/dotMac/MobileMe is crap argument either, iDisk was badass when it debuted.
And despite all the press regarding MobileMe's launch, the syncing actually works really well too. You can image a machine, plug in your AppleID, and within a few minutes - all of your stuff (including individual app preferences, wallpapers, Dock icons, etc.) show up. Restart and launch Migration Assistant on a gig network, and within an hour or so you can completely mirror entire workstations. It even copies Photoshop registration and *nix config files.
iCloud is simply the continuation of a vision Apple has been working on for more than a decade.
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- tjogin 15y agoExactly. For Steve Jobs it's closer to two decades, even. As described in Steve Jobs' closing keynote of WWDC 1997, where he outlines his setup from eight years earlier (1989). http://youtu.be/3LEXae1j6EY?t=14m25s http://youtu.be/3LEXae1j6EY?t=14m25s This idea didn't come to Apple via Google, it predates Google's existence, by a decade. The technical solution was different then, but Steve's focus is on the user experience, and that is quite similar.