Apple Demotes PC to "Just a Device" With iCloud

“Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy. We have a great solution for this problem. We are going to demote the PC to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud. Everything happens automatically and there is nothing new to learn.” — Apple CEO Steve Jobs

The ailing Apple CEO reported for duty to announce iCloud in a keynote address Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where he also previewed Lion OS X and iOS 5.

The highly anticipated iCloud, a wireless data syncing service that offers five free GB of storage and will match non-iTunes content for $25/year, replaces Apple's now-scrapped MobileMe subscription storage service, which Jobs admitted "wasn't our finest hour."

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