It's interesting that I don't hear these stories from the Android or Windows Phone ecosystems. I think this might be a situation where Apple being first-mover

It's interesting that I don't hear these stories from the Android or Windows Phone ecosystems. I think this might be a situation where Apple being first-mover has been a disadvantage to them; they started with a "sync to one single computer" design, and have been patching on that over and over to move into the new ecosystems. The other options in the market started with a "sync to cloud" design, so they had to solve issues of merging and collating data from multiple devices out of the starting gate.