When the industry moves, it seems like everyone company moves together. While Amazon and Google are making giant steps forward in cloud computing, Apple is about to announce their upcoming iCloud cloud computing service.
What does iCloud mean for iTunes? What does it mean outside of iTunes? Well, the ability to stream your iTunes library from any device, wherever you are, would be a huge selling point – one that Apple users (who are predominantly more wealthy than the average citizen) would likely pay handsomely for.
But will the iCloud be bigger than that? Will the iCloud help eliminate the portable flash drive? The hard drive? A gateway into a more secure, off-loaded online storage future? Let’s wait and see what Steve Jobs says.