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TidBITS#1080/13-Jun-2011
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  WWDC is done, and since we won’t see Lion until July and iCloud has
  just started to embrace us in its foggy mass, it’s time to start
  asking questions and put Apple’s announcements in perspective. Glenn
  Fleishman looks at the effect bandwidth caps may have on iCloud usage,
  and teams with Joe Kissell to list out questions we have regarding
  Lion’s purported reliance on the Mac App Store (no DVDs?). Glenn also
  suggests that many of Lion’s new features are meant to support not so
  much the exact interface of iOS, but the intent of iOS’s approach in
  moving on from the classic desktop interface. In other news, the
  iBookstore has finally come to iTunes, Guy Kawasaki will be keynoting
  MacTech Conference 2011, and Amazon has unveiled the Mac Downloads
  Store. Finally, Rich Mogull contributes a detailed explanation of just
  what “cloud computing” really entails — hint, it’s not simply that
  something is on the Internet.

Articles
    iBookstore Finally Appears in iTunes
    Guy Kawasaki to Keynote MacTech Conference 2011
    Amazon Takes Aim at the Mac App Store
    iTunes 10.3 Offers Automatic Downloads and Access to Purchases
    Questions Raised by Lion’s App Store Installation Requirement
    Bandwidth Caps May Obscure iCloud
    The Two Faces of Lion
    Of iCloud, Dropbox, and Elastic Computing: A Cloud Primer
    ExtraBITS for 13 June 2011


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