YES!! Exactly what I'm hoping for — there really is no reason for iCloud Drive to be such a miserable, limited mess...
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Apple VP Overseeing iCloud, iMessage, and FaceTime Infrastructure Leaving Role
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You're right, but you gotta be able to change with the times...
Me either.There's a saying with technology ... the problem is often between the chair and the keyboard.
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I've personally never lost anything in over 22 years with Apple's cloud services ... through .Mac to MobileMe to iCloud. All contacts, bookmarks, files, mail ... smooth transition every time.
Nice, but it doesn’t mean there has never been trouble on Apple’s side of things. I’ve mostly been fine but lost PDFs synced to iCloud a bunch of years ago. I'm certain it wasn't on my end as it happened again when I tried a second time to see if it was a one time occurrence. It wasn't. I didn't bother using for some time and I think it got fixed eventually (was in contact with Apple support and everything).There's a saying with technology ... the problem is often between the chair and the keyboard.
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I've personally never lost anything in over 22 years with Apple's cloud services ... through .Mac to MobileMe to iCloud. All contacts, bookmarks, files, mail ... smooth transition every time.
Does this mean that messages will finally sync between devices and contacts will stop changing labels for things like address, phone and email?
They need to fix iCloud Drive.
That'd all be fine if Apple did not charge for their services. But they do, so Apple should be pillared for their badly executed services.
I almost included Animojis, but then thought that would be a too cheap shot.
That is a very good point. Looking over a number of recent changes in code for Ventura and approaches to third party solutions and factoring in Apple’s approach to Silicon…. Things seem to be moving very firmly in the direction of Apple proprietary first.
This will mean more and more third party solutions in both software and hardware will begin to lose support and ultimately break.
Honestly I don’t see this as a consumer friendly nor a long term Apple friendly approach.
Further closing the ecosystem will burden Apple with more and more effort to maintain entire product lines for ever more ancillary and esoteric APIs and hardware devices.
It’s a strategy that failed before and is unlikely to become successful a second time.
If anything this will just further establish the value of more open frameworks like the many Linux distributions and yeah even Microsoft’s solutions.
Microsoft’s been very steady in the market by reducing their focus and strategy to software as a service. Apple can’t decide what they want to do but a full stack design approach for the entire computing life cycle is too much for one singular entity to absorb effectively. It was hard before and it’s even harder now. I just don’t see how they can maintain this.
SMH
The day a company puts their name on it, they own it. No excuses, no blaming, they own it for the good or bad. In the case of iTunes, Apple owned the bad.
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Yes, I agree. 2TB is not cutting it anymore. Especially with ProRAW images. We need 4TB, 6TB options, please.
“Whatchoo talkin bout willis?!?”…google related?? Wonder why apple stopped work on in house cloud and force us to use amazon/google stuff? Probably money saving smh…
He is also the executives closest to Tim Cook. I would argue a lot of Strategy happening at Apple are influenced by him.
I would like to see the next Apple VP whom oversees iCloud, iMessage and FaceTime Infrastructure to add the ability to start group FaceTime audio calls:
appleinsider.com
A feature like this could be similar to the current group FaceTime calls (which allow up to 32 people) but without having video - which would be great for conference calling or for group calls with friends or family
Apple looks to make Group FaceTime audio calls more realistic | AppleInsider
Audio-only group FaceTime calls with multiple people could be easier to deal with in the future, as Apple has suggested a way to process audio to implement the "cocktail party" effect, to make it easier to determine who is speaking.
A feature like this could be similar to the current group FaceTime calls (which allow up to 32 people) but without having video - which would be great for conference calling or for group calls with friends or family
Yeah, I'm fully invested in iPhone/iPad (and do own a mac, but spend very little time on it), but my daily driver will probably always be a windows or linux device because...that's what's used overwhelmingly in business.
It sure would be nice to have an app or website that could provide cross platform iMessage service instead of having to rely on my phone.
It has nothing to do with that. I usually lose stuff when iCloud transitions to a new version, or when an old macOS/iOS interacts with the new iCloud architecture, and it usually happens with Notes.
I've seen problems with losing table data, content of encrypted notes, and losing attachments. Care to explain how I could create a note and join 3 PDFs and 2 images, all working perfectly well for a few months, and then all I see is a gray thumbnail for each, saying "0 files" and giving me an error when I tap on them? A user is not able to do this.
iCloud needs to be fixed and improved, especially how slow the uploads are.
I hear you. What a piece-of-crap decision that was.
Now we need the one in charge of macOS to go and then we are on a good path
Apple has missed the big changes in the tech industry. It missed the cloud and it is missing AI right now. But - it developed a yellow iPhone …
Apple is clearly overrated.
Apple is clearly overrated.
Funny how people think things will change overnight with a new VP, like he will waive a magic wand and command all syncing issues to be a thing of history.