With Mountain Lion's iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall 376
snydeq writes "With WWDC around the corner, iOS 6 rumors are taking center stage, but the real action for developers may be around iCloud. Forthcoming OS X Mountain Lion will integrate iCloud into the formal file system, making iCloud usage much easier and thus more common, and thanks to iCloud Documents, which lets apps open and save documents directly in iCloud, developers will be able to better tap iOS-to-OSX document syncing in their apps, a la iWork. But there is a downside to this opportunity: 'For developers, it further enmeshes you in the Apple ecosystem, almost in the way that America Online did in its heyday. Case in point: OS X apps can use the iCloud Documents APIs only if they are sold through the Mac App Store.'"
Re:It is just more of Macs becoming iDevices (Score:4, Funny)
Whats awesome is Microsoft's lame attempts at cloning Apple's latest business strategy.
It's like hearing your grandfather talk about how swell Lil Wayne's new record is.
Re:Garden Wall? (Score:4, Funny)
Garden Wall is what it's called by Apple Fanboys. Apple users call it the Jail Wall. That's why your iOS devices need to be jail-broken, not garden-broken. (Score:1, Informative)
I wish Slashdot would interview the guy who decided to spend the mod point on this comment.
Re:Garden Wall? (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, us true Apple fanboys actually refer to it as the Posh Bunker. Walled garden is merely a media catchphrase.