Happy Tuesday,

Apple announced a slew of new stuff yesterday at the World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) including Lion, the next iteration of Mac OS X; iCloud, Apple’s entry into cloud computing; iOS 5, the next version of its mobile operating system; and iTunes Match which scans your music library, including music ripped from CDs, and matches up the songs available on iTunes for about $25 a year.

There’s a lot to absorb with these new products and services. Considering cellular data usage limits in this country are quite low, adding one’s music and other media to iCloud might produce some really shocking cell phone bills. It’ll be quite important to stream selectively, saving large files for when you’re on a terrestrial wifi connection! That aside, I can’t wait to see how this cloud-based ecosystem evolves.

Interestingly, to upgrade to Lion, you must first be running Snow Leopard. The Mac App Store only runs under the newest versions of 10.6, and Lion only comes as a download from the App Store. If history repeats itself, and it almost definitely will, Snow Leopard will no longer be available for purchase once Lion is on sale. So, if you’ve been holding out for Snow Leopard and want to upgrade to Lion, now is the time to grab the $29.99 Snow Leopard upgrade for Leopard users, or the $129.99 Box Set for Tiger users.

We have a ton of information about the new stuff on our blog, Barkings. Check it out.

As always, thanks for reading, and keep in touch.

Matt
matt@smalldog.com