13. Sharing Information in the Cloud

Introduction

iCloud is Apple’s cloud service, which stores your music, photos, apps, calendars, and documents and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices, such as iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and other Macs or Windows PCs. iCloud integrates with your apps, so everything happens automatically. iCloud requires no syncing or management. iCloud is a free for iOS 5 or later and OS X Mountain Lion users.

When you sign up for a free account, you get 5 GB of storage, which is plenty of space, considering that music, apps, books, and photos in Photo Stream ...

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