For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation
I don't know that anything Apple is doing is that revolutionary, the difference is that Apple and Jobs are <i>phenomenal</i> at presenting the idea so that people actually <i>get</i> it.<p>I'm sure there are a lot of Microsoft execs right now that are saying "we already do that with product X" and pretty pissed off that they were never able to sell product X over 5 years the way Apple did in an hour.<p>The bottom line is that Apple knows how to sell products to consumers, and Microsoft doesn't. Microsoft and Google both suffer from the same disease, they try to sell a product, not address a need. They might be the same thing in the end, and Microsoft might have even gotten there first, but Apple really <i>gets</i> marketing.