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I use mostly Apple devices, iPhone, Mac Pro, Airport Extremes, Apple TV. I love the tight integration. For me, the choice isn't about price; it's about functi

by redm 9y ago

I use mostly Apple devices, iPhone, Mac Pro, Airport Extremes, Apple TV. I love the tight integration. For me, the choice isn't about price; it's about functionality. I desperately wanted to like iCloud, but Apple missed the mark on this one. First, the way they try to "integrate it" makes it difficult to manage your data. Don't want your iCloud stored on your root partition? Huge pain to move. Second, it's hard to tell exactly what it's doing, when it's syncing, what's in sync, partially syncing content, etc. In other words, clarity to what's occurring is lacking. The list goes on, but this was enough for me to drop it. Google Drive got it right, which is what I'm using. (Of course so did Dropbox, who pioneered it) Until Apple allows more flexibility as to what's synced, how it's synced, where its synced, I won't be going back at any price. (Note: I do use iCloud for photo storage just because it's easy, but I'm not using anywhere close to the current limits).

qeternity 9y ago
I hear you on a lot of these issues, and as someone who uses Apple everything, I too rely on GDrive. But my girlfriend pays for the 200gb plan and loves it. She doesn't know what a root partition is, and she doesn't want to understand how syncing works. She just wants her stuff to be everywhere as she has come to expect it. This is where Apple shines. I wish they would open it up a bit to allow power users to really fiddle with it, but I would argue that they nailed the intended functionality which is specifically to abstract away all of what you mentioned.
MadManE 9y ago
This is an interesting look for me into exactly who Apple is targeting. Obviously, not you, because you want more control. But the more that I hear about what they are doing and the direction they are going, I am more likely to buy their services, because I just want something that works. Really, I think the crux is that I trust Apple to do the right thing for a bunch of non-solid reasons, and so I am willing to give them the control over the particulars of the mechanisms as long as the input-->output is what I want/expect from them.

by redm 9y ago

qeternity 9y ago

I hear you on a lot of these issues, and as someone who uses Apple everything, I too rely on GDrive. But my girlfriend pays for the 200gb plan and loves it. She doesn't know what a root partition is, and she doesn't want to understand how syncing works. She just wants her stuff to be everywhere as she has come to expect it. This is where Apple shines. I wish they would open it up a bit to allow power users to really fiddle with it, but I would argue that they nailed the intended functionality which is specifically to abstract away all of what you mentioned.

MadManE 9y ago

This is an interesting look for me into exactly who Apple is targeting. Obviously, not you, because you want more control. But the more that I hear about what they are doing and the direction they are going, I am more likely to buy their services, because I just want something that works. Really, I think the crux is that I trust Apple to do the right thing for a bunch of non-solid reasons, and so I am willing to give them the control over the particulars of the mechanisms as long as the input-->output is what I want/expect from them.