Apple Moves Digital Life to the Cloud, ‘Demotes’ the PC

In brief appearance, Steve Jobs unveils iCloud

Steve Jobs (along with Steve Wozniak) may have created the first real personal computer, but today the Apple CEO knocked his own invention down a few pegs.

In announcing Apple’s highly anticipated iCloud storage service at the company’s annual developers conference in San Francisco, Jobs said, “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device.”

Taking a break from medical leave to host the event, Jobs acknowledged that keeping mobile phones, laptops, and tablets in sync is “driving us crazy.”

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