Thursday, July 1, 2010

Exclusive: Apple iTunes in the cloud definitely happening soon, wireless syncing!

Exclusive: Apple iTunes in the cloud definitely happening soon, wireless syncing!

by Boy Genius on July 1st, 2010 at 11:39am
Filed under: Apple, Breaking News, Exclusives, Featured, Wireless 16 Comments

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One of our reliable Apple sources has just filled us in on some of the company’s iTunes plans, and they’re exciting. We have been told iTunes will be getting a huge cloud capability that many people have been asking for (and logically thought would happen sooner or later). These new capabilities are broken down into three groups:

  1. Streaming music and movies from Apple’s servers to your computers, devices, etc.
  2. Streaming music and movies from your home computers to your other computers, remote devices, etc.
  3. Wireless iTunes syncing with devices

For the first point, we have been told that this will work pretty much like you’d expect it to… pretty much any Apple device with wireless capability will have te ability to stream purchased content directly from Apple’s servers, thus eliminating the need for a lot of local storage. With the second point, Apple will reportedly let you be the content distributor to your own computers and devices, as any purchased content that’s locally on your computer will be able to be streamed using your internet connection out to your devices. Lastly, yes, wireless syncing of iTunes for devices.

For wireless syncing, we are told it will work pretty seamlessly. Any apps you buy for instance on your iPhone will immediately sync to your computer, changes to your calendar, or notes, or contacts will also automatically update on your computer as well. What good would all these new features be without some new devices? Apple’s traditional fall event (or maybe even before it) should bring at least “two new devices with camera/camcorder capabilities.” Well, there you have it!

Thanks, Lindsey S.!

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16 Responses to “Exclusive: Apple iTunes in the cloud definitely happening soon, wireless syncing!”

  1. 1
    JHUK says:

    This pleases me. My media centre is built around apple tech and presented to my tv using Apple TV.

    I like the sound of this

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    FriarNurgle says:

    Congrats on the recent exclusives.

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  3. 3
    JHUK says:

    “pretty much any Apple device with wireless capability will have te ability to stream purchased content directly from Apple’s servers, thus eliminating the need for a lot of local storage. ”

    This bothers me slightly. I still want to download files that I have bought in addition to having the streaming option

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    Mark says:

    As long as wireless syncing is for music too this will be very good. Dont see the point of syncing the other stuff really..

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    iamjoel5 says:

    will this “wireless syncing” work on the iPhone 4?
    …its jokes…its jokes…

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    gamer24 says:

    So basically iTunes is getting what Zune and other platforms have had for years

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    • 6.1
      bonesb says:

      Funny. Let’s see how many years it’s going to take to get Zune sales numbers up to match iPod/iPhone numbers, check back then…

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    gamer24 says:

    So basically iTunes is getting what Zune and other platforms have had for years, nothing really special about it. Though this just adds one more thing for the government to look into.

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    JimK says:

    I’m going to say that we’ll see this in September (announcement and/or release). It’ll coincide with the usual iPod update (annually in September) and will probably also include an updated iPad (the original 4GB iPhone was discontinued in September following a June launch) where the current low-end iPad is dropped, the 32GB bumped down and a newer model perhaps (I hope) with Retina display, camera, and iOS4 announced in the 32GB and 64GB sizes (with a release somewhere between September and November).

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    boogalooboy says:

    Thats going to really push those 2GB limits on at&t…..

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      whaaaa!!! says:

      Ugh…. F*ck AT&T. I feel sorry for the new AT&T customers. You cant even use your new smart phone like it was meant to be used, without getting raped in the ass.

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    Dream says:

    As long as they keep support for The Itouch 2g after ther new ipod is release, ill be happy

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    Tom says:

    So this will let me stream media so I don’t need to store it locally, but to stream local content from my computer to my devices I need it locally on my computer. What gives?

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    Faalkor says:

    This will be a great new feature to all those iTunes enabled devices. This isn’t new and this has all been done before. However, iTunes cloud services + iPod touch/iPhone + iPad + ATV is a pretty compelling feature set.

    Now if they could just add DLNA support to their hardware so I don’t need a PC to access my iTunes library.

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    AD says:

    So nice but all I care about is to unlock those old iPhones legally without the cat and mouse game. Apple and ATT will not do it – Apple and ATT are not my vendor of choice since I have every “i” piece of **** they made and now they are collecting dust in my drawer. So more proprietary technology and stuck with one vendor – diversification is the name of my game.

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