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I think iCloud cheated on its end of semester tests! It didn't deserve such high grade... the only thing it can always do correctly is iPhone backups, just that

by caio1982 9y ago

I think iCloud cheated on its end of semester tests! It didn't deserve such high grade... the only thing it can always do correctly is iPhone backups, just that, like someone said there. It's slow, expensive and clumsy.

nkristoffersen 9y ago
just a point from the other side. I use iCloud and it is quick, cheap, and seamless. $9.99/mo for 2TB is a great deal. And the file/photo/video syncing is painless and automatic.
- giobox 9y ago
  iCloud photo library syncing is a mess, to put it politely. The number of things you can do that accidentally trigger a full re-upload of your entire photo library is a minefield. Don't get me started on photoanalysisd either... Having re-uploads/photoanalysisd run repeatedly on large libraries is not fun. http://tidbits.com/article/17757 http://tidbits.com/article/17757 Increasingly the Google Photos iOS/desktop uploader apps offers a significantly more robust sync experience for me on my Apple devices. The pricing is fine until you hit the 2TB cap (very easily done if you use Family Sharing especially), at which point you are hosed. Even offering the ability to pay $x per GB over this cap would be a lifeline. Again Google have much better options for this. That the default free amount of storage hasn't changed in years from 5GB for all your devices is arguably pretty mean in 2018.
- digikata 9y ago
  Is there a way to tap into the iCloud photo library/stream with third party tools. I'd like to do that for an independent backup. The Amazon Prime photo app managed to do it, but I'd like something I can replicate photos to my own home server and not necessarily involve yet another cloud service.
- jonathankoren 9y ago
  It works when you have a local hard drive that can hold your entire photo album. Otherwise, it doesn't. Honestly, I don't understand iCloud for photos. I understand iCloud drive, it's a server. iPhoto's interaction with iCloud feels suspiciously like sync, so I actually have no confidence in it.
emsy 9y ago
While I agree on the expensive part (especially if you have multiple devices, 5 GB are ridiculous), iCloud it's not at all clumsy. Photo sharing, app sync and backups are so simple everyone I know can use it, whereas the settings on Android are imo genuinely clumsy. But iCloud is just a part of Apple's cloud services, and as far as I'm concerned 3.4 is way to high in a world where Google exists. At this point, I'm not even sure they realize how far behind Google they actually are.

nkristoffersen 9y ago

just a point from the other side. I use iCloud and it is quick, cheap, and seamless. $9.99/mo for 2TB is a great deal. And the file/photo/video syncing is painless and automatic.

giobox 9y ago
iCloud photo library syncing is a mess, to put it politely. The number of things you can do that accidentally trigger a full re-upload of your entire photo library is a minefield. Don't get me started on photoanalysisd either... Having re-uploads/photoanalysisd run repeatedly on large libraries is not fun. http://tidbits.com/article/17757 http://tidbits.com/article/17757 Increasingly the Google Photos iOS/desktop uploader apps offers a significantly more robust sync experience for me on my Apple devices. The pricing is fine until you hit the 2TB cap (very easily done if you use Family Sharing especially), at which point you are hosed. Even offering the ability to pay $x per GB over this cap would be a lifeline. Again Google have much better options for this. That the default free amount of storage hasn't changed in years from 5GB for all your devices is arguably pretty mean in 2018.
digikata 9y ago
Is there a way to tap into the iCloud photo library/stream with third party tools. I'd like to do that for an independent backup. The Amazon Prime photo app managed to do it, but I'd like something I can replicate photos to my own home server and not necessarily involve yet another cloud service.
jonathankoren 9y ago
It works when you have a local hard drive that can hold your entire photo album. Otherwise, it doesn't. Honestly, I don't understand iCloud for photos. I understand iCloud drive, it's a server. iPhoto's interaction with iCloud feels suspiciously like sync, so I actually have no confidence in it.

emsy 9y ago

While I agree on the expensive part (especially if you have multiple devices, 5 GB are ridiculous), iCloud it's not at all clumsy. Photo sharing, app sync and backups are so simple everyone I know can use it, whereas the settings on Android are imo genuinely clumsy. But iCloud is just a part of Apple's cloud services, and as far as I'm concerned 3.4 is way to high in a world where Google exists. At this point, I'm not even sure they realize how far behind Google they actually are.