I'm confused between your article and Joe Brown's. He makes the point towards the end of his article:

I can just see people in the real world trying to use this. Zoom, damn it, zoom, zoom... * snap * Arrrggghhhhh!!!!

As an FYI, it looks like iCloud support is coming in the Mac OS 10.6.9 (Snow Leopard) update. So Lion only is just temporary.

Just out of curiosity, does any one have any perspective or inside info on why Android and Windows Phone 7 units have such small specs on storage compared to the iPhone? It just seems weird that the iPhone is now topping out at 64GB of storage and a lot of these new phones are still coming out in the 16GB range. Was…

Yep, you're correct, math was off by one forgetting the first iPhone was actually the "2G". I'll bet it's the iPhone 5 though. Even Apple acknowledged there was so much pre-hype around what everyone thought was going to be the "5" that it hurt sales. To release yet another (now, third) iPhone 4[something] would seem…

Just as a correction, Siri cannot launch applications whether the phone is unlocked or not. Meaning, it will launch applications it needs to show you something (like Maps or Safari), but you cannot ask Siri to launch an application for you. She'll kindly tell you she's not allowed to do that.

The iPhone 4S may be "fifth" in sequence, however the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 5, not the iPhone 6. Just like the iPhone 4 came after the iPhone 3GS, whereas the 3GS was actually the "fourth" in sequence.

The unlocked iPhones (GSM) are coming, but not until November. The AT&T iPhones for sale at launch (even if you pay full price) are locked to AT&T.

Correct, I was speaking of the platform iCloud is currently built for—iOS devices. In that ecosystem, it is seamless. Outside of that, it isn't really made for that (non-Apple devices).

No, currently, you have to go "all in" with iCloud. That said, they have provided iCloud APIs to developers, so theoretically companies like Flickr, Google (Picasa), etc., could "iCloud-enable" their applications which would allow the functionality you are talking about.

The point of the article as others have mentioned isn't that Apple invented this, far from it. However there are few companies out there that have taken the time to make this as seamless and invisible for the average consumer. I'm not saying Apple is the only one, but there are few examples that are this integrated…

I'm not understanding how Flickr is even close to a replacement for PhotoStream? If I take a picture on my non-iOS device, there is some Flickr magic that automatically sends it to my computer and my other devices (without having to navigate to Flickr.com)?

No problem, just thought you might want to adjust it :)

Correct, after the migration, they are both linked to everything, so just use the one that you did all the purchasing with and you're golden. The other is still there, but becomes unnecessary.

...and while there's no "word" on an exact release date yet.

I'm a little confused by this story. When I just migrated my MobileMe account (I had a MobileMe account, and a separate Apple ID) to iCloud, it recognized that both accounts were tied to me (it showed as much when I went through the migrate process), and they are both now tied to iCloud. I now just use/sign-in with…

You're also assuming that a mature service like ComScore uses the same browser detection technique/JavaScript code as fmbip.com which I highly doubt.

Yep you are correct there, no native iTunes support. There are ways to get it handled, but it is a work-around (though it doesn't look at painful to me):

RIP Steve. What you did was nothing short of truly amazing.

I think the point is, even though Apple's connector is non-standard, it is all over the place. My car has integrated iPod connectivity, desk dock has it, alarm clock at home, etc. I know there are non-Apple devices that do this too, but there are an incredible amount of Apple native connectors in products across the…