The McQueen Project was revealed last night to the whole world by an American publication, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), being behind it and investing billions of dollars to create it own cloud infrastructure with servers worldwide to eliminate dependence on Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
I told you yesterday that Apple will use Google Cloud Platform for iCloud with the idea of giving users easier access to data from anywhere on the planet, but also to reduce dependence on Amazon for cloud infrastructure, but the plans of those from Cupertino are much more complex.
It has been rumored for almost 1 year that Apple is building its own CDN, a global network that will distribute content for users through iCloud, and McQueen is the secret name of the project from Cupertino, they are investing billions of dollars to carry out their plans.
Completing the McQueen project and developing its own CDN, the company Apple would substantially reduce the costs of data distribution worldwide, the entire investment to be recovered in just 3 years according to those who provide this information for the press.
For the past several months, Apple has been working on "Project McQueen," a plan to become more reliant on its own data center infrastructure and reduce its dependence on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
Although Apple uses Amazon and Microsoft's infrastructure now to distribute iCloud content and its stores to users around the world, Microsoft has informed Apple that it can no longer support their growing needs, so either help Microsoft develop the Azure infrastructure, or develop its own CDN.
This situation is not to the liking of those in Cupertino, and combining everything with the fact that Apple is not 100% satisfied with the fact that Amazon's services do not quickly load the images on the users' terminals, the end result is the initiative to develop a CDN.
Apple has been buying land in various locations around the world for some time to build data centers that will form the global content distribution network, but the completion of the McQueen project will take years, so until then Apple remains dependent on Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
