iCloud は信じられない変貌を遂げる

My guesses on the huge changes Apple will unveil at WWDC | fox @ fury

‘iCloud’ could mean anything, but given the complete failure of MobileMe over the last decade there’s no way Apple would introduce it on such a pedestal unless it’s incredible. My guess is that iCloud is to MobileMe as iPhone was to Newton: a complete, deep, polished solution after an underwhelming market failure.

・Seamless remote access to any data kept in your Documents folder, and synchronization across machines

 ・iOS runtime within Mac OS to allow iPhone apps to run as Dashboard widgets and iPad apps as first-class desktop apps.

 ・The only new devices announced at WWDC will be updates to facilitate the new software functionality. Some have speculated on new Airport base stations built around iOS to make VPN easy and mainstream. This seems very likely. It will be important to have one device that is always on and available, and Airport is a sensical bet.

At its core, Apple will use Lion and iOS 5 to make the shift from building computers that access the Internet to building a global computing service that lets people use any number of physical devices to access it.

At least, I hope so.

Ex-Apple Designer Predicts “Huge Changes” From iCloud at WWDC | Cult of Mac
〈元アップルデザイナーが大変化を予想〉