The iCloud service stores a variety of content — music, books, photos, contacts, calendars, and more — associated with a person’s Apple ID account and pushes it to all their iOS devices. The service will also back up each user’s important data once a day.
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Judging from the login screen alone, the apps will probably look and feel much like their desktop counterparts. (TechCrunch managed to get inside and take some screenshots. We’ll upload some images when we gain access.)
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Apple also release the yearly pricing model for iCloud. Everyone gets 5 Gigabytes of free storage (which doesn’t include iTunes purchases or data from apps).The company is also offering three additional tiers of storage to meet your specific needs:
- 10 GB for $20 a year
- 20 GB for $40 a year
- 50 GB for $100 a year
The iCloud service is slated to make its public debut this fall.
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