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Oh, nonsense! Anything with "i" on the front looks inherently Apple, anyway... In a sense, it's their own fault for choosing that name!
The only service I can think of with a name like that which people know isn't Apple-owned is the BBC iPlayer, and I'm fairly sure that was the first online service with that sort of name, so they beat Apple to the punch there!
Besides, Apple & the BBC are in bed together anyway
Damaging to the company?? Funny, besides Apple's iCloud service, I've never heard of iCloud Communications....if anything, it's putting them in the spotlight...possibly in a negative way.
In some way, it doesn`t matter what court rules are, since Apple partially released ICloud, they won`t change the name and will do whatever it takes to get the right to use ICloud, at least that`s what I`d do.
I suspect this will be settled quickly and quietly, just as it was when Cisco went after Apple over their use of the iPhone name.
As others reports have said,iCloud Communications has nothing to do with "cloud" storage, and is only a name.
Storage is only one form of cloud computing. VOIP, which iCloud Communications specializes in, is another.
Not quite. Cloud computing is simply the use of off site resources to do work that would otherwise be done by your local machine including storage. As you can see, the meaning of the term is rather elastic. I suspect the issue at hand in this court case will (partly) be to determine whether or not both are cloud resources.Cloud computing is referred to as an off site center(off network) of mass data/file storage where clients can have access to that data.
If I'm wrong, I would love to hear it.
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) accessible via a computer network.
How was I wrong? I didn't know I was suppose to recite the dictionary.Not quite. Cloud computing is simply the use of off site resources to do work that would otherwise be done by your local machine including storage.
If you Google "cloud computing," the very first link brings you to a wiki article with a definition in its very first sentence.
I'll grant that Skype and Yahoo and others use local front-ends, but the back end of what they do happens off site, with transmissions going through "the cloud" as it were.
How was I wrong? I didn't know I was suppose to recite the dictionary.
Services could mean anything else that's not listed.
Just because you provide online service does not mean it's automatically referred to as a cloud. It has similar characteristics, but it's not the same. If this statement were true, then we wouldn't have jumped on board with this "cloud" theme just recently, it would have happened when telephone companies were first able to store your info at their own facilities. The "services" they provide you gives you the ability to use voip. This has already existed in other cloud companies that also offer voip.
And why does everyone automatically list wiki as a reliable source? Take 2 extra seconds to look at the other sites and you would have noticed these:
What cloud computing really means | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld
Cloud Computing | Productivity Tools | Cloud Hosting | Microsoft Cloud
IBM Cloud Computing - United States
Cloud Computing Expo
HowStuffWorks "How Cloud Computing Works"
I don't know, I guess I just view it differently