Did Apple Just Buy iCloud for $4,500,000?
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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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
I hate spammers..
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.
Apple filed a patent for the use of the letter 'i" as a prefix, followed by a patent for the word "cloud".
"Apple's cloud... what would you call it?"
iGougePrices?
iCloud where your private data is securely viewed by yourself, and Steve Job's lackey of the month.
the best place to store your confidential data is in Wikileaks
I hate spammers..
yes, yours too.
MacLeod would've been more imaginative ;-)
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.
Another 'i' product from Apple. nuff said. Next.....
On a more different note, it seems that the spammers are only posting articles on tomsguide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Apple can't claim that they invented this one. Microsoft, Google and Amazon have all been there before them.
"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.
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.
OH SHIT! Whats the next thing thats likely to be trendy, I have to file an iTrademark on its name!
Seriously, in the age of Discus and Akismet spam comments still appear in the wild on a site like this?
Im starting to wonder if Toms is letting the site get spammed on purpose. They should hire, or give some people moderator priviliges like other spamless sights do. If the spmmers a robot, just do some captchas. All the spam is giving alot of people reasons to follow other sights, because its so annoying.
Im starting to wonder if Toms is letting the site get spammed on purpose. They should hire, or give some people moderator priviliges like other spamless sights do. If the spmmers a robot, just do some captchas. All the spam is giving alot of people reasons to follow other sights, because its so annoying.
I have similar ideas expressed in the feedbacks part of the site, here:
http://feedbacks.tomshardware.com/ [...] ?ref=title
Vote for my idea, maybe they will implement it.
iRain (on your parade)
We don't do it deliberately ... trust me it is a chore we hate and the new software is coming for the site soon.
I do not enjoy banging my head against a brick wall anyomre than you do bustapr !!
As a CEO he performed his job tremendously well, But apple isn't the second most valuable company in the world.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple- [...] 10962.html
Just one link. There are many more. Yes, Apple is currently the worlds second most valuable company behind Exxon_mobile.
If it happens to be true, then it is a record price for a domain. I remember all the buying, selling, and auctions that took place before the .com bubble burst. I think the record back then was somewhere around one million dollars. One of the million dollar domains was drugs.com.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple- [...] 10962.htmlJust one link. There are many more. Yes, Apple is currently the worlds second most valuable company behind Exxon_mobile.
Did you even read that article? Because it's an estimate. But here you go, just one link:
http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/ [...] p?tkr=AAPL
ok go to...
http://www.forbes.com/global2000/l [...] nyCapValue
Sort by market value.
The first listed is Exxon Mobile at 407.2Billion. Second is Apple at 324.3 at least when the list was compiled.
ok go to...http://www.forbes.com/global2000/l [...] nyCapValueSort by market value. The first listed is Exxon Mobile at 407.2Billion. Second is Apple at 324.3 at least when the list was compiled.
A company isn't just evaluated by the Market Value, there's also other variables, you're just trying to distort what is presented on the list for your needs. Also if you go to the leftmost column you would noticed that Apple rank is 47. In terms of technology companies, HP, Samsung and IBM are ahead of Apple.
Yes, yes Apple did. Next question.