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What is so wrong with iCloud? It does exactly what I want it to do - back up my phone and sync my data between devices. Maybe people try to use it for more tha
by aneth4 14y ago
What is so wrong with iCloud? It does exactly what I want it to do - back up my phone and sync my data between devices.
Maybe people try to use it for more than this?
- DigitalJack 14y agoI can tell you what is wrong with iCloud. It's supposed to be a sort of magical data sharing, but apparently it's only partially magical when it comes to OSX. Go ahead, make a keynote deck, or numbers spreadsheet. Save it to "the cloud," now go look at your ipad or iphone. Where the hell is it? So much for magic. Sharing is a royal pain in the ass with iOS. The gyrations I have to go through to move data from an ios app to the desktop is ridiculous and often impossible. I'm hopeful they will get iCloud up to spec eventually, but for now it just sucks.
- ricw 14y agoCouldn't agree more. How about photos, something supposedly mainstream?! Have fun recreating all the events/albums/locations on each device. It's just a pain to deal with. Instead, I save my iPhoto library on Dropbox so that I can sync it between devices. Sub-optimal, to say the least. Apple services have always been underwhelming.
- coob 14y agoI have a feeling iCloud is just testing the waters with Photo Stream. Full on cloud hosting of photo libraries is a large undertaking requiring masses of storage. I expect it will come eventually.
- comex 14y agoIt's indeed hard to defend the lagginess, but since the praise is going to Google, it's worth noting that iCloud predates Drive by quite a while, and as far as I know, although you can use a combination of Drive, Google Cloud Messaging, and the Backup API to get a similar experience on Android, it's relatively complicated.