iCloud and your iPod touch

So you are on holiday talking pictures on your iPod touch 64Gb, then horror of horror, you drop yor iPod in the pool. The pictures you took yesterday of your kids swimming with dolphins are lost forever. Those once in a lifetime images gone.

Well when Apple bring out their new mobile device operating system iOS 5, the risk of loosing pictures you have taken using your iPhone, iPod or iPad will shrink.

You see they are introducing what Apple call iCloud, yes I know another work with 'i' stuck on the front, what Apple are going to do is provide every iPod, iPhone and iPad customer with 5Gb of storage on the Internet and integrate that storage system into the iOS 5 operating system.

What this means is when you take a picture on your iPod touch as soon as you connect to the Internet, that picture is going to be loaded onto your iDisk on the Internet, automatically you don't have to do a thing. If you have an iPad as well that picture will be automatically downloaded into your photos application. If you have a Mac running OS lion then your pictures will be loaded onto your computer as well. All of this is done with no input from you.

Your iDisk will store your most recent 1000 pictures, so if you have an apple TV you can sit and look through those 1000 pictures when ever you like. This is a great example of Apple getting yet another jump ahead of the competition, the advantage they can draw from having control over the hardware and software of their products.

It is said that your data is not safe unless it is stored in three different places and no data seems to be more personally important than our pictures. I think we have all experienced moments when we have lost or think we have lost pictures dear to us.

So Apple have now provided us with a seamless solution. If you have an iPod touch or iPhone, an iPad and a Mac, you will have your pictures stored on 3 separate devices, plus the last 1000 stored on your iDisk. Just burn your older pictures onto disk and store them at your parents house and you have a completely resilient picture storage solution.