Please don't make us use iCloud anymore

Re:Please don't make us use iCloud anymore by jtc331 on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:01AM (#8482137)

Not necessarily. Sync--particularly sync which can involve changes at the same time by different devices--is hard. A lot of devs just don't want to fully implement the required mechanisms.

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Re:Please don't make us use iCloud anymore by emsy on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:16AM (#8482227)

I agree that sync is hard and I wouldn't even blame iCloud since it's rather complicated matter, but there are three things that made me do so:

1) They made it a de facto standard and showed developers how easy it is to use when seemingly, it's not

2) iCloud even messes up simple sync tasks, like: buy a new device 3 out of 5 apps won't start after a simple download from iCloud

3) The problems occur to so many customers and developers that Apple should communicate the problem with developers and adapt their approval system.

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Re:Please don't make us use iCloud anymore by jblow on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:51AM (#8482381)

Sync is not that hard. I have never had a problem with Dropbox, for example, and that was made by brogrammers.

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