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20. Using iCloud

Wallace Wang

(1)San Diego, California, USA

In the old days, every computer was an island. Anything you created on one computer would have to be copied and moved to another computer. If you forget to copy a file from your desktop to your laptop, you might travel to another city only to realize that you’re missing several crucial files.

Fortunately, there’s a better solution. Rather than try to keep your files synchronized on multiple computers, you can just use iCloud. The main idea behind iCloud is that you have storage space on the Internet, otherwise known as the “cloud.”

The advantage of iCloud is that you’ll always be able to access ...

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