Apple Inc. took a major step to make people store and access their data on the internet when CEO Steve Jobs appeared in the middle of her illness leave to introduce the service "a music-streaming" iCloud.
Monday U.S. time (GMT Tuesday it), Jobs looked thin gets a rousing welcome from more than 5,000 loyal supporters of Apple on the "Worldwide Developer's Conference". He introduced a service that makes its users who rely on data storage in personal computers even when they drive around with a lot of mobile devices, more and not feel restricted.
Jobs, a cancer patient that his decision to appear on the show ease Wall Street concerns about his health, do not say anything about his health, but stepped on the stage after James Brown's classic song "I Got You (I Feel Good)" is blaring from the sound system .
Silicon Valley icon that praised the Internet-based service for consumers called iCloud, which allows users to play music and access data from any Apple device. This is an important capability for users in improving the working habits of outdoor activities.
"We will move the digital center, the center of your digital life, into the cloud (cloud)," said Jobs. "Everything happens automatically and there is no new thing to learn. It all worked just like that."
In cloud computing, data and software stored on the server, while pernagkat-devices get access to it via the internet. Analysts say iCloud can create a new model for media consumption, and bring clouds, which had been used many companies, to many consumer devices.
In the event that caused little surprise, Jobs said iCloud free beta version will be available Monday (Tuesday pm this). But since the fall, the users can pay 24.99 dollars a year to make their song library which is available in iTunes can be played on any Apple device.
Features, which Jobs introduced with a sentence that is often spoken of "one more thing" ("one more thing") during the final presentation, making Apple sped away from Google Inc. and Amazon.com.
Known as the iTunes Match, the system scans the user's hardware and automatically makes the songs become available in iCloud.
Conversely, users of Google and Amazon storage cloud based must upload each song his own.
"This has the potential to change the game," said Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu. "This is a new way of computing in which you are less dependent on a PC (personal computer) and local storage."
Adoption of Apple for this cloud computing will be further pressure on Microsoft, he added.
Good but difficult
Monday was the second appearance in public for the benefit of the company since he took sick leave in January. He shared the stage with his executive team shows give new features in mobile phones and computer operating software Apple.
"He looks thin, but seenergik normally," said Current Analysis analyst Avi Greengart said, adding that Apple's expansion in computing is so great.
Apple's move into cloud service comes as companies try to step ahead of competitors like Google and Amazon.com in the business of mobile content and online.
That could encourage more demand for mobile devices, from iPhone to iPad, in addition to helping music sales through iTunes.
More than 25 million sold in 14 months iPad tablet computers since it was launched, said chief software Scott Forstall. And, consumers have bought more than 15 million songs from iTunes, the world's largest music store.
Jobs said people will be able to share in the purchase of books, music and data as well as calendar items, through-pernagkat different devices, while supporting and updating the information regularly.
Apple will provide five gigabits for free cloud storage, enough for 1,000 songs, but Apple will charge in the future for more space than that.
Apple also introduced updates leading software in the conference, including Lion, the computer's operating system Mac OS X and advanced version of mobile operating systems.
Apple is known to keep the meeting agenda, has an unusual open again about what is planned to show it to the annual conference of developers. Five-day conference for developers who rely on Apple in almost all his life.
Jobs decision to frequently appear in some of the show had a separate news after pancreatic cancer patients had taken sick leave from the island to a state that is not disclosed.
Apple stock price down 1:57 percent to close at 341.60 dollars on the Nasdaq stock market. Stocks were traditionally rise before it appears a big event, then fell on the day before the event takes place.
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