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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1568687"><p>Any Apple product, yes. The iCloud service works across Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPod touch running recent versions of the two operating systems (OS X or iOS, respectively). It doesn't apply to older Macs that can't be updated to at least Lion (OS X 10.7.x).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, what you're describing there is called "Remote Login" -- iCloud does have a facility for that, but its only Mac-to-Mac (ie you sign in on one Mac and can remotely control another Mac). The web site (icloud.com), which you can access from Macs or PCs, replicates the functionality of a few key Mac and iOS apps (Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, Pages, Numbers and Keynote), and keeps these areas and a few others in sync.</p><p></p><p>Primarily, I think people use iCloud both for a standard email address as well as an "Apple ID" that they use to log into any of Apple's various online "stores" -- meaning the App Store (Mac or iOS), the iBookstore, and iTunes. In addition, the automatic syncing of Notes, Reminders, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks (in Safari), Mail and (optionally) Photos as well as iTunes purchases (music, movies, videos, etc) is a great benefit, as it all happens more or less instantly. I change a time of an appointment on my iPhone's calendar, and it is simultaneously changed on my Mac and iPad (as an example).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1568687"] Any Apple product, yes. The iCloud service works across Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPod touch running recent versions of the two operating systems (OS X or iOS, respectively). It doesn't apply to older Macs that can't be updated to at least Lion (OS X 10.7.x). No, what you're describing there is called "Remote Login" -- iCloud does have a facility for that, but its only Mac-to-Mac (ie you sign in on one Mac and can remotely control another Mac). The web site (icloud.com), which you can access from Macs or PCs, replicates the functionality of a few key Mac and iOS apps (Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, Pages, Numbers and Keynote), and keeps these areas and a few others in sync. Primarily, I think people use iCloud both for a standard email address as well as an "Apple ID" that they use to log into any of Apple's various online "stores" -- meaning the App Store (Mac or iOS), the iBookstore, and iTunes. In addition, the automatic syncing of Notes, Reminders, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks (in Safari), Mail and (optionally) Photos as well as iTunes purchases (music, movies, videos, etc) is a great benefit, as it all happens more or less instantly. I change a time of an appointment on my iPhone's calendar, and it is simultaneously changed on my Mac and iPad (as an example). [/QUOTE]
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