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Did Apple Just Buy iCloud for $4,500,000?

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Apple's cloud... what would you call it?

With Apple products these days, it's all about the i. Besides the MacBook, it's i everywhere – the iPhone, iPod, iMac, iTunes, iPad, iAds, iOS… Naturally, Apple will continue with this naming convention.

Word on the street is that Apple is prepping an online storage, music streaming and cloud service. What better to call it than iCloud? We're sure that's what Apple thinks, and GigaOM reports that Apple may have purchased the iCloud.com domain for around $4.5 million.

CloudMe, the former owners of iCloud is a Swedish cloud storage company. The owners of CloudMe, Xcerion, declined to confirm or deny why it changed its name and domain, but AllThingsD is pretty sure that it was all Apple's doing.

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    jednx01 , April 30, 2011 11:12 PM
    I bet the people who were the previous owners of that domain are patting themselves on the back for picking that domain a few years ago. lol
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    verbalizer , May 1, 2011 12:44 AM
    I hate spammers..
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    TitusFFX , May 1, 2011 12:47 AM
    must of took a genius to come up with the name iCloud ^.^ too bad windows already had their own going back during the release of windows 7.
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    Azimuth01 , May 1, 2011 2:31 AM
    Apple filed a patent for the use of the letter 'i" as a prefix, followed by a patent for the word "cloud".
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    pocketdrummer , May 1, 2011 4:30 AM
    "Apple's cloud... what would you call it?"

    iGougePrices?
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    stm1185 , May 1, 2011 4:42 AM
    iCloud where your private data is securely viewed by yourself, and Steve Job's lackey of the month.
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    cookoy , May 1, 2011 4:54 AM
    the best place to store your confidential data is in Wikileaks :) 
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    JackFrost860 , May 1, 2011 4:55 AM
    malmentalI hate spammers..

    yes, yours too.
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    liveonc , May 1, 2011 7:41 AM
    MacLeod would've been more imaginative ;-)
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    Anonymous , May 1, 2011 8:21 AM
    Has anyone ever bought anything from a spammer on a forum?
    Note to spammers: Go back to the street corner, no one is going to trust you when you gatecrash a forum.
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    vk_87 , May 1, 2011 10:50 AM
    Another 'i' product from Apple. nuff said. Next.....

    On a more different note, it seems that the spammers are only posting articles on tomsguide.
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    Anonymous , May 1, 2011 2:44 PM
    I can see an image of "Neuschwanstein" castle rising out of a fog bank (a castle in the cloud) as the icon and on most of the advertising for iCloud.

    Very Disney-like.
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    Silmarunya , May 1, 2011 5:00 PM
    msbpodcastI can see an image of "Neuschwanstein" castle rising out of a fog bank (a castle in the cloud) as the icon and on most of the advertising for iCloud.Very Disney-like.


    There certainly are some parallels between iSteve and Ludwig II of Bavaria (Neuschwanstein's builder) too.. Their insanity, their delusions of grandeur and irrational and their distorted dream world for example.
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    NuclearShadow , May 1, 2011 6:56 PM
    I think the name is awful to be quite honest. If I am not mistaken the "i" stands for interactive.
    So we have "interactive cloud" Not very catchy. Of course this wouldn't be the worst naming case of such that would go to iAds "interactive Ads" perhaps not a bad idea for a form of advertising.... except they aren't interactive so the name is highly inaccurate.
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    ohseus , May 1, 2011 10:40 PM
    SilmarunyaThere certainly are some parallels between iSteve and Ludwig II of Bavaria (Neuschwanstein's builder) too.. Their insanity, their delusions of grandeur and irrational and their distorted dream world for example.


    "Delusions" of grandeur? Personally, I think forging the the second most valuable company in the world from nothing sounds pretty grand. But, I admire your ability to jump on to an uninformed bandwagon. Go ahead and feel good about yourself and superior for that one. I won't point out how deluded you are.
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    eddieroolz , May 2, 2011 12:52 AM
    Apple can't claim that they invented this one. Microsoft, Google and Amazon have all been there before them.
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    Vladislaus , May 2, 2011 7:48 AM
    ohseus"Delusions" of grandeur? Personally, I think forging the the second most valuable company in the world from nothing sounds pretty grand. But, I admire your ability to jump on to an uninformed bandwagon. Go ahead and feel good about yourself and superior for that one. I won't point out how deluded you are.

    As a CEO he performed his job tremendously well, But apple isn't the second most valuable company in the world.
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    virtualban , May 2, 2011 7:48 AM
    Note to spammers: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sell_generation
    The spam does not even figure there, because it goes way under the loosing interest, goes to the hate part, including the brand spammed if that reaches to attention. Not that spammers care, or the fake brand producers care.
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    bustapr , May 2, 2011 11:21 AM
    OH SHIT! Whats the next thing thats likely to be trendy, I have to file an iTrademark on its name!
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    Anonymous , May 2, 2011 12:56 PM
    Seriously, in the age of Discus and Akismet spam comments still appear in the wild on a site like this?
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