iCloud doesn’t stop at the free core apps, though. It’s getting App Store integration.
You can now see your purchase history on all devices, and redownload an app easily by just tapping it. No longer is there any confusion about which app you own and which you don;t.
iBooks does the same thing, as does music and video. When you buy anything new, it pushes down to all of your devices automatically.
With iBooks, it’ll even store bookmarks and notes across devices. This is Apple’s answer to Kindle’s Whispersync.
Even better? iCloud automatically backs up most of the data on your device to the cloud once a day, including purchased content, camera roll, device settings and app data.
But Steve Jobs promises that as impressive as this all is, it’s the last three features that are amazing.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
8 responses to “iCloud Gets App Store Integration, Automatic Backups [WWDC 2011]”
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Question. My ipad has 16gb memory while my iphone has 32. Obviously, my ipad cannot accomodate all the data stored from my iphone. How will icloud push 32gb of data into a 16gb ipad? Hmmmm…..
Does this mean I don’t need iTunes at all?
you can select what data is downloaded to your devices. Plus if an app is missing, the data is ignored cause you can’t use it .