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is Air Drop the same as iCloud ?

Hi i have just started to download Lion, i see one of the features of Lion is AirDrop !, is this anything like iCloud ?.


I get the impression reading a bit deeper that Air Drop is for Mac's ONLY and iCloud is only for iPad's and/or iPhone's !! i am a little confused.


tim

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 11:25 AM

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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 2:12 PM

No. AirDrop works only on a local network and does not depend on any outside servers. It operates between 2 Macs running Lion. See this page for an explanation.


iCloud is a totally different thing. See this page.


Best of luck.

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is Air Drop the same as iCloud ?

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