Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speaks up

Re:Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speak... by Aloisius on Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:33PM (#5456746)

IMO, from having studied this for many, many hours over many moons, is that what Apple is trying to do is fundamentally hard, if not entirely unfeasible. They're trying to replace a smart server with one that's dumb as a doorstop. More specifically, they're trying to emulate a CRUD web service with a file sync engine.

Having dug through iCloud's underlying structure, I can tell you what they're doing is very close to what Microsoft's Sync Framework does - right down to the naming of some of the columns in the underlying database.

In fact, if I didn't know better, I would think it was a peer implementation of the Sync Framework (which considering the iCloud server is hosted on Microsoft Azure which has native support for Sync Framework built into hosted SQL Server, isn't too far fetched).

The difference is that Microsoft's Sync Framework seems to work.

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Re:Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speak... by wagerlabs on Thursday March 28, 2013 @03:15PM (#5457027)

How do you know that the iCloud server is hosted on Microsoft Azure?

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Re:Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speak... by Atanvarno on Friday March 29, 2013 @02:32AM (#5459552)

It's known from the start: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/16/iclou...

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