Apple has unveiled the beta for iCloud, the company’s new suite of media streaming and cloud-based services.
The new beta, which is available to all users with an Apple ID (update:some of our readers are having trouble accessing iCloud with Lion), features web-based version of Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Find my IPhone and iWork. They are accessible if you visit iCloud.com while using iOS 5 (available to Apple developers) or Mac OS X Lion. It does not include Apple’s cloud music services, including iTunes Match.
Apple also unveiled the pricing structure for iCloud. The first 5GB of storage on the service are free. An addition 10GB will cost $20, 20GB will cost $40 and 50GB will retail for $100. It’s a good deal more expensive thanAmazon Cloud Drive, which gives 20GB of space for $20 and lets users store an unlimited amount of music for free.
We’re playing around with the iCloud beta now, and while we’ll have more to report, our initial conclusion is that the iCloud beta is a modified version of MobileMe. It includes similar interfaces, which isn’t a surprise. The addition of iWork support is a welcomed addition though, as is the simplistic and universal interface for all of Apple’s cloud services.
We’ve taken some screenshots of the beta and embedded them below. Check them out, and let us know what you think of the iCloud beta in the comments.
iCloud Beta Login Screen
iCloud Icons
iCloud Contacts
iCloud Calendar
iCloud Mail
iCloud Keynote
iCloud Numbers
iCloud Pages
iCloud for Mac OS X
The new beta, which is available to all users with an Apple ID (update:some of our readers are having trouble accessing iCloud with Lion), features web-based version of Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Find my IPhone and iWork. They are accessible if you visit iCloud.com while using iOS 5 (available to Apple developers) or Mac OS X Lion. It does not include Apple’s cloud music services, including iTunes Match.
Apple also unveiled the pricing structure for iCloud. The first 5GB of storage on the service are free. An addition 10GB will cost $20, 20GB will cost $40 and 50GB will retail for $100. It’s a good deal more expensive thanAmazon Cloud Drive, which gives 20GB of space for $20 and lets users store an unlimited amount of music for free.
We’re playing around with the iCloud beta now, and while we’ll have more to report, our initial conclusion is that the iCloud beta is a modified version of MobileMe. It includes similar interfaces, which isn’t a surprise. The addition of iWork support is a welcomed addition though, as is the simplistic and universal interface for all of Apple’s cloud services.
We’ve taken some screenshots of the beta and embedded them below. Check them out, and let us know what you think of the iCloud beta in the comments.
iCloud Beta Login Screen
iCloud Icons
iCloud Contacts
iCloud Calendar
iCloud Mail
iCloud Keynote
iCloud Numbers
iCloud Pages
iCloud for Mac OS X
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