Ok....so how's a "FREE" service going to generate income?
if you'd read up about it, iCloud is funded by the existing profits from iOS devices, so there is no charge to anyone, no adverts, nothing. there's nothing stopping people without an iOS device signing up for a free account at all. if you claim it's not free, where exactly am i paying?
iCloud offers me NOTHING....got it ? ZIP ZILCH NADA NOTHING....it's a complete joke...You can't do didly squat with your pictures so what the point of having them there other than to provide back up online? You can't remote host them and post them any where. Really does iCloud even have a purpose other than free back up for a bunch of iPhone and iPad users? NO. The only reason this was done was to pull more people away from having to have a second computer and sell iPads and iPhones. i.e. take customers away from PC manufacturers.
It may not offer you nothing, but only a small minority of iOS users actually had MobileMe. so the majority are getting a bunch of extra free features for their device. alot of people use other services for photo hosting, such as Flickr anyway, infact way more people use Flickr than MobileMe. for iCloud users, it's great that any recent photo we take is backed up to our computers and available on our iOS devices.
iCloud has many features, yes they are mostly iOS related, but that's the point since it's already factored into the profit of iOS devices. Yes Apple are a business, so they will do things inspired by business.
It is just one more move by Apple to alienate more real laptop/desktop computer users. Because in reality most PC/ Apple desktop and laptop users have back up available through time machine or other home storage solutions.
actually i think you'll find that most average users still don't actually backup their systems, i do alot of first line support for Joe Public and a vast majority don't backup their laptop/desktops. Plus i think you're EXTREMELY over doing it in regards to this point, as you really don't make any sense.
Oh wait I forgot....it's there so people don't have to grab their tiny little cable and synch their phone....Really?? How dumb is this. I never thought plugging my phone in was that big of a task😕 Next thing you know they will offer iPhone and iPad charging using mind control...God forbid we have to "plug" it in to anything anymore.
Actually the wireless syncing to a computer is nothing to do with iCloud, you're mixing up wireless syncing and iCloud backups. totally different entities, you should look up each and see the difference.
like i said, you need to go have a time out, chill, cry it out, whatever. Apple are a business, MobileMe obviously was not successful enough, so they scrapped it for something that may be more widely used. Deal with it and move on, there's suitable enough alternatives to the services that MobileMe supplied, there was before MobileMe and there is now.
