AnotherJoe said:
professorhat said:
But then, at least currently in the UK, iCloud has little to do with music. Its main function is to provide a backup for your iPhone for those who don't want to / can't backup to a local iTunes instance on a PC / Mac.
Once iTunes Match arrives on these shores, it will then become more important for the music side of things.
You could just use dropbox to backup your iphone of course.
Of course you could. Or any other online storage system. The advantage of iCloud is it's built into the phone. My other half isn't particularly technical and has just got a new iPhone 4 and all she had to do was say Yes when it asked her to sync with iCloud and it was done.
You might not like it, and you may well have the knowledge to put in an alternative system for your own phone. But for someone like her (and I would imagine most smart phone owners), it just makes things easier as she doesn't have to learn anything new or think about it, it's just done for her.