For those of you who subscribe to or feel trapped within the Apple ecosystem, then it’s time to give Apple’s new data centre a bit of a spin by pulling down its new software offerings and, perhaps, uploading all your shit to the iCloud—Apple’s pie in the sky remote storage and backup service.
Last night, iTunes 10.5 final was made available via Software Update—this is the one version of iTunes that will support iOS and iCloud. Actually, that’s just an assumption based on any update Apple has ever dropped in recent years. And if I’m wrong, the internet will let me know.
This morning at around 4AM east coast time, iOS 5 and iCloud were made available to the horde.
iOS should be ready to go for you once you’ve got iTunes installed and you hook up your iPhone/iPad.
iCloud can be set up once you have iOS 5 installed or for Mac users, once you’ve upgraded to the latest version of OS X, which should also be available right now. Its web interface,
iCloud.com, has been open since yesterday.
With an alleged 250M iOS devices out there and many users anticipating iOS 5’s new features like improved notifications (HALLELUJAH), Apple’s massive North Carolina data centre will be experiencing some heavy real-world loads right about now.
UPDATE 1:
At the time of writing, Apple’s
Find My Friends app that allows you to keep track of your friends (think Foursquare) has been released. Unfortunately, that ugly ‘leather bound’ look is in full employ here. Please Apple get rid of it!
They’ve also just dropped the
Airport Utility app that allows you to control Apple routers from within iOS 5.
UPDATE 2:
TheNextWeb has reported
big issues with the update due to massive demand. Am so not surprised!