Questions

I have questions. Perhaps you have answers:

  • Is iCloud going to available to Mac apps that are not sold through the app store, or is iCloud only available to apps sold through the app store?
  • If iCloud is only available to apps approved by Apple through the app store, then why is Apple apparently planning to defer revenue related to Lion to account for the deferred use of tbe iCloud service?
  • If iCloud is a component that comes with Lion, then shouldn’t Lion customers be able to use their 5Gigs, or more if they pay for more, any damned way they choose?
  • If there is going to be an iCloud interface for the web, will web apps for iOS be able to store data on iCloud?
  • Social Security numbers are made up of 8 digits. By my count that means that there can only be 100 million social security numbers issued. Yet there are currently in excess of 300 million Americans, every one of whom ought to have a Social Security number. What the hell? Is the Social Security numbering system just a big joke now? 9 digits. Given that there are 300 million Americans currently aiven, doesn’t that mean we should run out of social security numbers in the next 100 years? Is anybody planning for this?
 

2 Responses to “Questions”

  Wordan Says:

Since iCloud interaction is likely to be done using a programming API, it shouldn’t make any difference what the sales vector of your application is.

The web apps question is a good one. Wouldn’t surprise me if there is a Dropbox-like interface available from icloud.com (a domain that will definately have _some_ web based apps, such as mail and cal, etc) but I’d be surprised if there were a generic interface that any web app could use (say, a JavaScript library, or something).

 
  Andre Says:

Concerning your first Question: yes, it’s just for Apps sold through the Appstore…

 
 

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