3. Introducing the APIs and the First Apps
This part of the book shows you how to take advantage of the data your users have placed in iCloud either directly or indirectly by using apps that synchronize their data with iCloud. These apps include Contacts, Reminders, and Calendar as well as iPhoto on OS X or Camera on iOS. iCloud makes this data available to users on all their devices. The opportunity for you as a developer is to build apps that let users take this data and work with it. Their contribution is their data; your contribution is an understanding of what they may want to do with their data. The apps from Apple provide powerful support for the most common tasks that people want to perform with their data, but there are literally thousands ...
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