MemeStreams | Apple iCloud To Get 150 Million Users Instantly

Apple’s WWDC 2011-announced iCloud cloud computing service may attract instant popularity, says an RBC Capital Markets survey. In the survey it was found out that 150 million users, around 76 percent of iPhone users, will be joining iCloud soon after its official launch this fall. Apple users are also very much interested with iOS 5’s iMessage feature, the survey said.

The RBC survey was conducted among 1,500 iPhone users between June 7 and 14. Attracting 150 million users in months after the release of an online service means great advantage for the company.

With such a multitude of members, Apple iCloud will be competing with major online services like Google’s Gmail, micro blogging portal Twitter and Yahoo. All of the services have an average of 200 million users.

Apple announced its much-awaited iCloud service at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2011 early this month.

Apple iCloud is meant as Apple’s cloud-based media service. The platform can automatically store data such as texts, images and audio from all iDevices, Mac computers and laptops.

Users can have access to the iCloud storages from anywhere and from any Mac and iOS devices. This is what the fantastic feature of the celebrated iCloud service.

Actually, there is nothing surprising to hear that Apple iCloud will attract 150 million users instantly, because Apple already has hundreds of millions of users. And in a time, cloud computing is gaining momentum, iCloud may rise in popularity.

Apple iCloud To Get 150 Million Users Instantly