Apple has just released its long awaited iCloud, a multimedia backup and streaming service. And indeed, it offers all you will ever want from such a service in a always recognizable Apple way. It will offer you web apps like what we see with Google apps and more like: Calendar, Mail, Contacts, iWork and so on. FindMyiPhone becomes a web app too!

In it’s starter edition, iCloud is free for users but it has only a limited amount of storage: 5GB. You can get more if you need it: 10 GB larger storage space for $20 annually. 20GB will cost you forty bucks and 50 GB will come at a price of $100 for every year. Interestingly you will be able to purchase more storage through your iPhones or iPads iOS 5 Settings app!

Other online companies like Amazon And Google are already offering their cloud services, and currently it seems that Amazon has a better deal for users, but of course one thing they don’t have is seaming less integration with iOS on iPhone and iPad. Besides Apple probably rightfully expects that the free 5GB of storage will be more than enough for most of the users. MobileMe users will be happy to learn that they don’t have to worry: Apple will relocate their accounts into iCloud!

iCloud is a completely new step for Apple and it was clearly demonstrated as Steve Job himself took on himself to present the iCloud on the last WWDC conference held last month in San Francisco. One of the most innovative option available with iCloud is iMatch. This app will compare music on your devices with millions of songs which are available in iTunes and it will upgrade them to better AAC format without bothersome DRM features!

iCloud should become officially available for all iOS users after the release of iOS 5 which is expected to be in September.