Hate Apple’s iCloud? Hop on Acer’s Instead

Posted 01/08/2012 at 4:41pm | by Justin Kerr

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If imitation is the highest form of flattery, than Acer has a serious case of Apple envy. At the company’s pre-CES conference in Las Vegas, Acer introduced a brand new Ultrabook tablet powered by a new set of cloud services that seem more than a little familiar. AcerCloud, not to be confused with iCloud offers photo, document, and media sharing between your PC or other Android devices.

Of course you might say cloud services weren’t invented by Apple, however the similarities on the functionality and naming front make this “me to” offering more than a bit obvious. Photo sharing comes courtesy of “PicStream” (not “Photo Stream”), which automatically uploads your most recent photos for sync on other devices, and retains them for a period of 30 days. AcerCloud Doc’s like iCloud offers document sync, and the icing on the cake is the new “clear.fi” media app that lets you upload your music files to the cloud for streaming later. 

It’s great to see more choices, but would it have killed them to be a bit more subtle about the whole thing?

(Image Source = BI)