iCloud Announcement Creates Stormy Weather Over Blogosphere
Posted 06/14/2011 at 1:55pm
| by Keoni Chavez
Steve Jobs's announcement of Apple's up-and-coming iCloud service at last week's WWDC certainly made an impact on the Mac-using community. While the response seems to have been mostly positive, there appears to be dissent among the cognoscenti -- specifically in regard to the apparent lack of a web interface.
Prominent tech pundit Josh Topolsky, in the shared blog This Is My Next, has made the claim that "Your devices will become not just the primary place where Apple intends for you to do your work and get your content -- they’ll be the only place." However, this statement isn't supported by anything substantial from Apple itself, despite what he says earlier in the article about iCloud replacing MobileMe.
Furthermore, in his blog Daring Fireball, John Gruber calls this a "bad assumption", which is echoed by Jim Dalrymple in The Loop. The shared sentiment appears to be that not saying anything about a potential web interface, a la MobileMe, is not the same thing as saying there won't be one. It has been historically difficult to wrangle anything specific from Apple's PR department other than what they have gone on record as saying, so until we have confirmation one way or the other about this issue, we'll just have to sit back and wait.