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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yes, yours too.
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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.
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.
"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.
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.