Apple Time Capsule refresh to coincide with Lion?
Supply of Apple's Time Capsule hardware is reportedly becoming scarce in the days ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, a sign that a new version of the product could be just around the corner.
Time Capsule, which was released at the beginning of 2008, combines a wireless router with a hard drive, giving users a way to store files on the device. It's also tied to Apple's built in Time Machine backup software, which made its debut as a part of Leopard. That software is able to tap into the Time Capsule to wirelessly store backups of a user's applications and settings.
The timing around said shortage is of special interest given Apple's upcoming presentation of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion", the follow up to Snow Leopard. It includes a new feature called "versions" which makes Apple's Time Machine feature more granular, saving different iterations of a document every time it's opened, and on the hour. Apple has also said it will be unveiling its iCloud service, which could make use of the Time Capsule hardware for ferrying data back and forth between the cloud and Apple devices.
