Just the usual question..
Apple = US company
What about user privacy?
Finnish, Belgian and Cypriot fanbois are among a group of European and Nordic Apple users who woke up today to find themselves able to share films with iCloud. The cloudy service, which stores your content and wirelessly pushes it to all your Apple kit, allows users to access their previously purchased movies and music. If they …
I think they will need to have more than just one copy to cover the different language requirements and possibly even 'Board of Film Censor' or whatever each country calls them. Still, I'm sure someone has thought of this before they have to order a few more hard discs from Amazon....
Even if the govt wanted my iTunes purchase history so what. They'll know I'm an avid NPR podcast listener & I like traditional Irish and Romanian music.
Oh, and while stuck in an airport for 27 hours I got the paid version of Angry Birds. That is kind of embarrassing...
Up to a point, I agree.
I've reached the point I thought I would never get to, where I purchase content from iTunes rather than physical media or elsewhere precisely because of the cloud access features. Using Wifi in Portugal to download a film to watch on the plane back from my existing account isn't something I could easily do elsewhere. The whole idea of no longer loading my device for a trip but loading it during a trip and being able to change my mind is pretty neat.
That said, the file storage facilities of iCloud are truly shit. Whoever decided iDisk was to be scrapped was just nuts...