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I think you're missing a big reason which is support cost. one major advantage of cloud is that users can't screw up deployment.

• merely-unlikely 4y ago
  That's one of the reasons I point to Apple as the company that could theoretically do it. Apple devices talking to Apple software running on Apple hardware. As a partial (but less complex) analogy, consider how seamless AirPods are vs bluetooth headphones. If the server software were confined to macs, that would also act as marketing just like iTunes was mac only for a while. Though I recognize Tim Cook seems far more interested in selling additional services than hardware unfortunately.
  • wyre 4y ago
    I love this idea and hope it comes to market. Apple could easily turn it into a subscription and have the user provide their own storage (aka upsell internal storage). I was curious how users without a stationary Mac (aka a MacBook that doesn’t have ~100% uptime) but I’m sure they could create a network sharing between devices when they are on the move. Unfortunately, iCloud works well for probably 99% of their user and, like someone in this thread said, the only people interested in this service are in this thread.
    • halostatue 4y ago
      If Apple wanted to enter this, they could make it _possible_ with something like a beefed up Apple TV.
      • wyre 4y ago
        An Apple TV that would let me stream and store my media from any of my Apple devices would be very nice.