is Air Drop the same as iCloud ?

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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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laundry bleach

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Jul 20, 2011 2:12 PM in response to timmy toad

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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timmy toad Author

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Jul 20, 2011 2:39 PM in response to laundry bleach

cheers buddy, thanks for that very obvious explanation, i obviously wasn't paying attention.

tim

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Jul 20, 2011 4:44 PM in response to timmy toad

You are very welcome, and thank you for the courtesy of awarding the correct answer, which is not required but is very much appreciated.

Remember, the only dumb question is the one you don't ask.

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