Aside from being busy with court appearances, Apple has launched its iCloud for developers.  Its cloud-based service hat stores your files and pushes your data across your Apple devices automatically, but it’s only accessible for developer members of MobileMe for now.  And if all goes well with Steve Jobs’ plan, iCloud will replace MobileMe by next year.

iCloud features a web-app version of Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Find My iPhone apps.  The service offers cloud-based storage and access to your music, video, and photos, along with documents and much more.  When you take a picture from your iPhone, it automatically appears on all your devices without having to sync it.  So, all your files are readily available and on-the-go as much as you are.  No more wasted time spent on downloading and transferring files, all your data are just in the palm of your hands whenever needed.

But of course, nothing this good comes for free (well, it does for the 5GB service).  If you wish to add to your 5GB it will cost $20/year to upgrade to 15GB, $40/year to upgrade to 25GB and $100/year to upgrade from 5GB to 55GB.

MobileMe will officially end on June 30, 2012, but Apple says that MobileMe users will still have all their shelved data available to them, even after the site formally closes.  All their stored data will still be accessible and will still work even if their MobileMe accounts have been transitioned to their iCloud account.  The iCloud domain is rumored to have been bought by Apple for $4.5 million even before the announcement of the product’s name earlier this Spring.

And to support the impending domination of the iCloud, Apple secretly released an update for their second generation Apple TV set-top box.  The update allows user to purchase TV shows on Apple TV, which can then be re-downloaded on other iOS devices.  Shows purchased on other iOS devices or with iTunes will automatically show up as available to play on Apple TV.  It also features Vimeo integration that allows users to browse and watch millions of user-uploaded videos found on the Vimeo service, for free.

“Apple reached out to us… and we were more than happy to put in the time to create a Vimeo app for the Apple TV that provided a complete experience.  I think a lot of the content on Vimeo is best viewed on a larger screen. So, this is an easy way to make that happen.” Vice President of Product and Development for Vimeo Andrew Pile said on an interview with VentureBeat.

And as hype around the iCloud leads us into the fall season, so do iPhone 5 rumors.  The much awaited iPhone 5 that was supposedly set to be released in September is now rumored to be released in October.  It looks like Apple is really building up anticipation for their product.  Let’s see if this strategy works.  And after just releasing Skype for iPad, Apple removed it for unknown reasons but released this statement:

“To ensure your best Skype experience, we’ve temporarily removed Skype for iPad which went live prematurely today,” the company said on Twitter. “We know you’ve been eagerly awaiting Skype for iPad and apologize for the inconvenience.”