iCloud

iCloud

It seems that Apple is leaving me behind with iCloud as I don’t want to double my mobile phone plan spend (now using a 3G at £20, need to go £41 to get a ‘FREE’ iPhone 4) to get an iPhone that supports iOS 5.  

It looks like iCloud is replacing MobileMe, so that causes real problems for me as I use MobileMe to synch my contacts and calendar with my phone. I can keep my MobileMe account until June next year, maybe I’ll be able to justify a phone upgrade then, or maybe I will have found another solution like Funambol instead.

OS X Lion

I don’t really want to spend £21 to upgrade my MacBook Pro to OS X Lion either but it looks like I have to if I want to continue to develop software for for the current range or iOS devices. There is an alternative, which is solutions like Sencha Touch and Phone Gap which look like they are getting close to native app speed.  

Conclusion

It is starting to feel like Apple is falling into the same modus operandi that companies like Microsoft used with great success to screw every last penny out of their customers, let’s hope they realise the error of their ways before they start on the downward slope that Microsoft has been on for a while now.