Jobs set to unveil cloud product in public
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June 1, 2011, Wednesday
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APPLE Inc Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs will make a public appearance next Monday to unveil a cloud-computing product and a new version of the operating system that powers its iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices.
Jobs, who the company said on January 17 would take his third medical leave since 2004 to battle a rare form of cancer, will deliver a keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement yesterday.
Apple, the largest United States music retailer, has reached agreements with three major record labels to let users of its new music service access their song collections from handheld devices via the Internet using the so-called cloud, people with knowledge of the deals said this month. Apple would follow Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc in letting users stream music from the cloud instead of downloading it to a hard drive.
A new iTunes offering would let users store content on Apple's servers and access it using the web, rather than loading songs into a device's memory, the people said. The plans could be previewed as early as Apple's developers conference, set to begin next Monday, the people said this month.
The June developers' conference has in years past been the opportunity for Apple to reveal the year's new iPhone model, ahead of a retail launch a few weeks later. But this year, analysts are speculating that the new iPhone won't arrive until the fall.
Jobs, who the company said on January 17 would take his third medical leave since 2004 to battle a rare form of cancer, will deliver a keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement yesterday.
Apple, the largest United States music retailer, has reached agreements with three major record labels to let users of its new music service access their song collections from handheld devices via the Internet using the so-called cloud, people with knowledge of the deals said this month. Apple would follow Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc in letting users stream music from the cloud instead of downloading it to a hard drive.
A new iTunes offering would let users store content on Apple's servers and access it using the web, rather than loading songs into a device's memory, the people said. The plans could be previewed as early as Apple's developers conference, set to begin next Monday, the people said this month.
The June developers' conference has in years past been the opportunity for Apple to reveal the year's new iPhone model, ahead of a retail launch a few weeks later. But this year, analysts are speculating that the new iPhone won't arrive until the fall.
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