Apple's iCloud to undermine Google?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to reveal the new service on Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The company has spent the last two years secretly building a billion-dollar, 500 000-square-foot data centre in North Carolina.
The new facility is five times larger than its existing data centre in New Jersey. Apple has also massively expanded data centre capacity in Silicon Valley.
iCloud being Apple's first cloud computing-based service is a focus of much attention as it has been reported that Apple has signed agreements with the leading recorded music giants that include Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music and EMI Group Limited, notes TRCB News.
A fourth agreement is also expected to be signed this week with Universal Music Group after which iCloud is expected to be unveiled.
These agreements will enable Apple's consumers, without requiring them to transfer or upload music from their devices, to listen and create their online music collections.
An attempt of similar capacity was made by Google and Amazon earlier but didn't proved to be such a success as they were not able to finalise agreements with the major record companies. Apple managed to do that just right.
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