Cloud Computing: Apple seeks to lure you into a more unified digital ecosystem
June 9, 2014
Grazed from Calgary Herald. Author: Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla.
While devoid of any earth shaking hardware announcements, the revelations made at last week’s World Wide Developer’s Conference all point to improving Apple’s key strengths and further linking their mobile, desktop and cloud ecosystems. The introduction of new product areas and functionalities make Apple products even more indispensable by putting them at the centre of the new CarPlay, HealthKit, and HomeKit initiatives.
Continuity is a key differentiator
Apple may be battling Android on the mobile front and its user-base is still way behind Windows adoption on the desktop category, but the recently announced iOS 8 for mobile and OS X Yosemite have key advantages for users that have iPhones and iPads as well as Mac desktops or notebooks. These are features no PC or smartphone maker can offer…
It will soon be possible to share files directly between iPhones and Macs via a unified wireless AirDrop technology. What’s more impressive is a new feature called Handoff, which enables devices to be aware of each other and aware of what the user is working on at any given time…
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