iOS 4.3 with Photos And Media Streams feature
Apple iOS 4.3 will add two new features to your iPhone which are appropriately named as Photo Streams and Media Streams. With these two new feature you can invite your friends to view your photographs as you take and upload the pictures to Apple cloud service.
From the actual operating system, not the SDK, we could only find references and graphics relating to the “Photo Stream” feature, not the “Media Stream” feature in general. We speculate that Apple is currently working on “Media Stream” and this is going to go way beyond photos in the future. We think Apple will expand this to music and videos, maybe like AirPlay between mobile iOS devices where you can watch or listen to your friends’ media and of course Apple will provide easy buy links to iTunes.
Photo Stream actually uploads all the pictures taken within last 30 days to the MobileMe which is then downloaded to the rest of your devices. Speculating further, the Media Stream has to be stored somewhere, it isn’t just going to live on your iOS device. We believe this is where Apple’s Cloud infrastructure comes in.
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