Apple leads cloud computing with its newly announced iCloud

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc, announced cloud services this week at Worldwide Developers' Conference on Monday. The services are meant to help customers store more of their photos, music and other data online. Jobs showed off new Apple products for consumers to keep their iPhones, iPads and computers in sync.

"We're going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud," Jobs said. "Everything happens automatically and there's nothing new to learn. It just all works."

New operating systems for Macs, iPhones and iPads are capable to integrate cloud storage in everything from word processing to calendars and to-do lists, going beyond what other companies have done.

"For the average consumer it makes cloud computing real," said Mike McGuire, a media analyst with Gartner. "What we saw from Amazon and Google were features, not services."

New iTunes Match service will also scan users' hard drives and automatically make the songs it finds available on the iCloud.