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iCloud Development Held Up By 'Deep Organizational Issues' at Apple
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Do you? All the software is free because it is the trap to force one to upgrade the hardware, especially these days.
Have you ever heard of "Manually manage music and videos"? No? Because I don't think the other guy has heard of it either. But it's there.
Seriously, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
P.S. I have had GIGABYTES of local video files in iTunes and they all have streamed fine to my AppleTV.
They seem to have addressed this with the most recent iOS update. Deleting a photo from the camera roll also removes it from Photo Stream, and if you save a photo from Photo Stream into your camera roll, but later delete it, again, it will remove it from your Photo Stream.
Like your friend, I work in IT...
I agree with your friend. People that blindly accept "The Cloud" as the solution forget what the definition of "Cloud" is... Just someone else's computer you have no control over. I prefer to control my data. Ask Jennifer Lawrence how the cloud worked for her.
That's a pretty amazing thing to say. Kinda dickish...
I ran into a friend of mine in Chicago and we were talking about random technology stuff, and he said that he still doesn't use 'The Cloud' for anything. This is a guy that has written books on the internet and networking and knows it a whole lot more than I do, and I don't consider myself a noob, but he doesn't get into that 'cloud stuff'. I'd consider his opinion over yours or any one else that wants to snark at people for not embracing having their personal stuff spread all over the internet.
He also laughed and said that he doesn't do online banking, and had a fight with his credit card company to get a card without the NFC technology in it. He said that people that didn't understand the internet and how intrinsically insecure it is love to poke him about being a Luddite and accusing him of being old fashioned. And yet I won't do online banking either and punched the chip out of my Amex card.
I'm happy for you, that you feel so comfortable with everything that you can trust a company you don't know with the security of everything you own on your computer. Happy for you. Respect us that want to still be here to say 'Told you so' when it backfires on you.
I'll stay behind my firewalls and play my games and wait to get thumped on the head by others who think I'd old fashioned too...
Oh, gotta go crank up the car...
I agree with your friend. People that blindly accept "The Cloud" as the solution forget what the definition of "Cloud" is... Just someone else's computer you have no control over. I prefer to control my data. Ask Jennifer Lawrence how the cloud worked for her.
Ummm, no. If apple can't do it properly and quickly, they should just exit the cloud service market and leave it to the experts.
Man, you are so brilliant...you've found them out! Exposed!
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I suppose that goes for hardware too?
In the Cloud's defense, the two step security was not set up in the case of the Photo theft from what I understand. If keeping your stuff in the cloud is analogous to leaving your wallet on a public table, not having two step security is like leaving the wallet open for people to grab stuff more easily. Really, though, I think we could do with an expert opinion here on how secure the net is. I'm certainly not one. I only know what I've read.
Yeah, pretty much everything under Eddy's domain is either faltering or playing catch up to the competition. I'm surprised he's still there TBH. But I heard he's good friends with Tim so I don't see him going anywhere anytime soon. It's unfortunate because Eddy presides over services and that is the weak link in Apple's hardware, software and services strategy.
I don't see a problem with Apple as a service company. In fact it was their iTunes service which made me their devoted customer. When I bought my first iPod Shuffle, it was twice the price and half the storage of competing products. And I bought it purely because of the simplicity of its hardware, but I wasn't really hooked until I discovered Podcasts. It was the added value of iTunes software and services which made it all worthwhile.
Apple makes its money on selling hardware, but they always deliver the whole package of hardware, software, services and even retail and repair. The value of their products comes from this integration. Apple makes the iPhone, the iPhone camera (with focus pixels), the iPhone camera app (with slow-motion), the A8 chip (with image signal processor), the iOS (with all kinds of stuff) and so on.
Long before we even come to an 'iCloud Photo Library' all the competition is hopelessly behind. No one can compete with Apples cloud services, because no one can copy their organizational structure. Apple even has its own programming language, its own low level compiler, its own programming tools and its own spaceship campus. Now tell me, how similar to Dropbox that is? This free service I never paid for. They are a good service company, aren't they?
Apple makes its money on selling hardware, but they always deliver the whole package of hardware, software, services and even retail and repair. The value of their products comes from this integration. Apple makes the iPhone, the iPhone camera (with focus pixels), the iPhone camera app (with slow-motion), the A8 chip (with image signal processor), the iOS (with all kinds of stuff) and so on.
Long before we even come to an 'iCloud Photo Library' all the competition is hopelessly behind. No one can compete with Apples cloud services, because no one can copy their organizational structure. Apple even has its own programming language, its own low level compiler, its own programming tools and its own spaceship campus. Now tell me, how similar to Dropbox that is? This free service I never paid for. They are a good service company, aren't they?
I don't believe this talk anymore. In fact it works great and has even saved the music industry.
I simply had no such issues with all the PB's and neither with the final release.
Each application development team (x2) dictating features for a globally shared environment and nobody is in charge of coordination? What could go wrong? LOL!
Seriously if true, that would explain a lot.
Seriously if true, that would explain a lot.
I don't see how that is possible.
iCloud Photo library is not supported in OS X.
Photo stream is, but it doesn't support videos.
Which I'd consider using if they'd handle external domains. As it is I have to use other providers because iCloud email can't accept any of my domains. No family or business accounts either, so there's no central maintenance or monitoring features.
Let's not forget the absurd inability to rename, merge, or migrate iTunes and iCloud accounts. This is very basic backend functionality, not difficult in the least.
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If Apple is serious about the cloud they need to poach someone from Amazon, Microsoft or Google and have them run iCloud. And they need to report directly to Tim Cook. Eddy Cue should be plenty busy with iTunes, App Store, Maps, TV and Pay.
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My guess is he has too much on his plate. I just hope that Cook isn't afraid to take something away from him for fear it will look like a vote of no confidence.
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My guess is he has too much on his plate. I just hope that Cook isn't afraid to take something away from him for fear it will look like a vote of no confidence.
Nope, it doesn't. Look up the dozens of huge threads on Apple Support regarding all of these issues.
Semantics. I actually only have one Mac and I use Dropbox *as* storage, not sync. And if you have iCloud Drive enabled, and have 2 macs, yes, it will certainly sync all the files in your iCloud Drive folder, as well as act as cloud storage.
This mess that Apple is in is exactly why Microsoft will pull through. Nadella is an awesome CEO who shows talent and knowledge in both cloud and local platforms. He is turning Microsoft around from what Balmer screwed up.
In 3-5 years, I see Microsoft in the lead with Google and Apple trailing behind. I will gladly switch at that point and MSFT CEO would at that point, deserve every dollar earned.
Someone needs to put a fire under Tim Cook, restructure Apple, and get some consistency going. Their organizations are too silo'd and they aren't working collaboratively anymore.
In 3-5 years, I see Microsoft in the lead with Google and Apple trailing behind. I will gladly switch at that point and MSFT CEO would at that point, deserve every dollar earned.
Someone needs to put a fire under Tim Cook, restructure Apple, and get some consistency going. Their organizations are too silo'd and they aren't working collaboratively anymore.
