Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speaks up

Re:Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speak... by crag on Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:50PM (#5456879)

"Good lord, that sounds like a complete mess. I haven't been anywhere near it as a developer so I can't really speak on how bad it is from that point of view."

Let me tell you it's not exactly happy land for us consumers either. Apple's "cloud" is a mess. And don't even get me going about the "new" and "improved" iTunes. Frankly I pity developers, cause Apple's mess is giving them a bad name.

I can't think of 1 icloud enabled app (on Windows or Mac) that I've used that worked well. The apps themselves are fine, it's the cloud integration that fails. I mean just look at Apple's own forums.

After 10 years as a Mac user, I'm actually considering moving back to Windows. I'm just over it. It's like every new OS (or app) something goes missing. I'm tired of spending hours searching for replacements for features Apple has removed. And I'm tired of being force-fed services and apps (that Apple's PR states is "gonna change my life") still in beta.

Ok ok //end rant

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Re:Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speak... by killerpopiller on Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:13PM (#5457317)

I switched from linux (after 9years) to an iMac and iCloud was one of the first things I couldn't believe how poorly it works. Ubuntu One sets a standards it seems. Right click your desired folder click ubuntu one and it gets synced. with iCloud (and box, dropbox) I have to duplicate the folders, weird.

I spare you the finder, sftp-integration and the keyboard-layout bitching.

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Re:Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speak... by crag on Friday March 29, 2013 @01:00AM (#5459310)

Well to be fair, Finder's been a mess for years. ;)

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