Really? Google syncs docs, photos, music, and all sorts of stuff from mobile devices. They have a Drive desktop client (for PC and Mac).

And you say it doesn't have the equivalent of Numbers, Pages, or Keynote, but they do. It just so happens that there's a web client for all your word processing, spreadsheet and presentation needs in Google-land (with very cool features like simultaneous multi-user editing and Javascript scripting with a script repository).

Anyhow, Google does have equivalents to what you listed, they work great, not sure about iCloud (don't use it), just wanted to clear that up.

Docs, Sheets and Slides are all APPS now, with real-time syncing

Jus sayin'...

Browser based doesn't mean online-only...

That's a whole lot easier than figuring out how to do sync.

Unless things changed since the last time I looked, no, not really. If you decide to turn off iCloud after using it for a period of time you risk having contacts, calendars, notes and other data deleted. This happened to my wife. She had to disconnect due to HIPPA and lost piles of information in the process. Yes, if you are a tech person there are ways to avoid that. That is nit the case for the average person. I think this is really shitty of Apple. How hard would it be to ask: Would you like to keep <information> stored in your <device> after disabling iCloud? Not sure what this says about Apple.