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iCloud Development Held Up By 'Deep Organizational Issues' at Apple
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This is what happens when u pour all everything into a fish bowl and "make the best products" but we fail on the back-end supporting these products, like iCloud drive
huh.... In the after life PC fanboys will be strong as ever..
I give credit where credit is due,,, Apple is persistent, that's for sure, but it seems it bites them every time.... They get up, and try again. they have trouble staying on their feet..
The comedy styling of Tim Cook.
Maybe it might have been better If Apple didn't design such great products, at least they would be able to think better outside the box they live in to some further extent..
huh.... In the after life PC fanboys will be strong as ever..
I give credit where credit is due,,, Apple is persistent, that's for sure, but it seems it bites them every time.... They get up, and try again. they have trouble staying on their feet..
The comedy styling of Tim Cook.
Maybe it might have been better If Apple didn't design such great products, at least they would be able to think better outside the box they live in to some further extent..
I know but is there any reliable source out there, that is "not" pro-Apple, that have a good track records of knowledge inside deep organisation of Apple? I find none.
So why should we give The Information a pass?
"Except that I won't touch Google with a 10ft pole. I use YouTube (sadly, Google bought them), and the Google News page. That's it. No way in hell I'd use their email, or their search, or their maps, or Google Drive, etc., etc. Google's mantra used to be "Don't Be Evil" Well, not anymore. **** 'em. I can't stand that company. Their entire business model is spying and collecting data on people who use their products and selling it for advertising. Their email has ****ing AD's in it because computers read your mail. No. Thank. You."
And this post was deleted.....why?
And this post was deleted.....why?
If you really think Nadella actually has made sweeping changes to Microsoft, you haven't been paying much attention.
Sometimes Apple overcomplicates simplicity. iCloud is too many things, often too specifically constrained for one use case of simplicity to be generally useful. If that use case doesn't work for you, it becomes highly complicated and frustrating. Apple needs to make iCloud pieces simple in purpose but flexible in use, instead of purposely restricted for use.
As much money as Apple has stuffed in their mattresses, they should be pumping out first rate software in Every class. They should stop giving it away free if that would help.
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Let's see who corroborates the story. If there's any truth to it somebody will come out and say they've heard similar things.
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I thought Cook's org change making Apple even more functional was all about getting rid of silos? Maybe Eddy Cue has too much on his plate and maybe the cloud isn't his strong suit. Cook needs to bring on an executive with lots of cloud experience to run iCloud. I'm sure Eddy would have a full time job just running iTunes, AppStore, TV and Pay.
iTunes Match is the worst service I have ever used by far. I have had nothing but issues with it. I tried it when it first launched and just a few months ago. I really thought it would have gotten better, it hasn't though : (.
Spinning off a part of the company is a solution to monopoly accusations, not the cause of them.
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Well, we pay good money for the cloud drive functionality, so we expect at least the basics that the major competitors like Dropbox or Google Drive offer. What we do not expect is that other Family shares cannot back up their devices on the shared space. Or a bunch of other limitations, like exchanging documents.
So, I paid, then I cancelled (but Apple keeps your money though the end of the month, regardless).
I get virtually the same services listed above through syncing iCal, Contacts, etc., trough the compatible Google services, which not only work flawlessly and are free, but are also compatible with the rest of the world, both private and business, which uses stuff like Google Calendar.
I just don't understand the article. Taken from Appleinsider
Jobs want the iCloud Photo to be like Hyperion. iCloud Photo Library is still not yet what Jobs had envisioned. Photstream synced the recent 1000 photos. iCloud Photo syncs all.
The question is: what's exactly that Hyperion's capable of that iCloud Photo is not? The article isn't clear. That leads me to believe that iCloud Photo is, or more or less, exactly the same as Hyperion since the author can't state clearly what's the difference between the two. If true, then the problem is only that iCloud Photo is in beta?
That's all?
Sounds like a big click-baited piece, not different than most other pieces about Apple nowadays.
Meh.
You do it directly on your phone/tablet in the Google music app. Why outsource it to a computer app for added inconvenience?
I Just Fixed Your Problem:
1. Enforce two-step verification for iCloud, restricting the device's access to iCloud via secured networks. Only.
2. Man up and add more capacity to your SAN. Do it better than Amazon and make it free. 120GB a year. Add 1TB glacier-type storage for $10 a year. Forever. You've got the tax-breaks to do the right thing.
3. Consider "fixing" the artificial "scarcity" of materials for large-scale SSD transformation.
4. Build machines for professional creatives. -You're distracted with toys and trivial pursuits that will eventually drown your company in a sugary mess.
5. You're welcome.
1. Enforce two-step verification for iCloud, restricting the device's access to iCloud via secured networks. Only.
2. Man up and add more capacity to your SAN. Do it better than Amazon and make it free. 120GB a year. Add 1TB glacier-type storage for $10 a year. Forever. You've got the tax-breaks to do the right thing.
3. Consider "fixing" the artificial "scarcity" of materials for large-scale SSD transformation.
4. Build machines for professional creatives. -You're distracted with toys and trivial pursuits that will eventually drown your company in a sugary mess.
5. You're welcome.
Idisk and .mac was the best
Sorry but features .MAC offered were perfectly fine. Sharing files was easy and all worked.
then .me came and it started to go to hell.
They remove features and add them with huge glory to .Icloud
and yet it just doesn't work.
Sharing files via airdrop is a joke. It just doesn't work, but what do we want if it is for FREEEEE.
I think
has a problem.....
Sorry but features .MAC offered were perfectly fine. Sharing files was easy and all worked.
then .me came and it started to go to hell.
They remove features and add them with huge glory to .Icloud
and yet it just doesn't work.
Sharing files via airdrop is a joke. It just doesn't work, but what do we want if it is for FREEEEE.
I think
has a problem.....
Hey Bro, you know what? I think you're just the man to replace Tim Cook. Contact the Board of Directors and send them your resume posthaste.
I saw the hoopla in the video presentations from Apple, the carefully choreographed demos, the delight of the audience, and I felt, temporarily, the feeling that Apple were creating something great with iCloud. But then after I'd upgraded to Yosemite and iOS 8, I placed some simple text notes inside folders in my iCloud drive folder. I waited a few hours, looked on my other Mac, and only some had synced. Now, weeks later, they still haven't synced. I tried again with the same result.
I simply cannot understand how Apple, with all its resources, can offer this with so much excitement to the public, when it doesn't work even for a few text files. How on earth would I trust my precious photos with it?
I struggle to understand just how so much can be wrong with such a big company.
Heresy alert: I sometimes think that mega financial success has been bad for Apple. They should concentrate on fewer things and do them well.
I simply cannot understand how Apple, with all its resources, can offer this with so much excitement to the public, when it doesn't work even for a few text files. How on earth would I trust my precious photos with it?
I struggle to understand just how so much can be wrong with such a big company.
Heresy alert: I sometimes think that mega financial success has been bad for Apple. They should concentrate on fewer things and do them well.
You can only coast on past glory for so long.
Within 3 years we've arrived at a lineup of the same products as in 2010 just some of them thinner and with faster processors just like everyone else. They've butchered all their software -- looks like Pokemon on glaring white background and much less intuitive to use, as opposed to better, which was how Apple used to do things. Company is being run by bunch of hollywood celebrities. Products used to exude class and understated design excellence -- now it's bunch of gold-plated, pink-anodized, Paris Hilton ridiculousness.
Cook is cashing in on what Jobs created. You can only cash in once.
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Wow.. I'm amazed at all the problems people here seem to be having with iCloud.
Maybe I'm in the minority then, but I've never had any significant issues ( and I was there during the MobileMe era ). The synching works pretty flawlessly between my 2 macs+iPad+iPhone , albeit a bit slow at times. Mail, Calendar, iOS apps, etc... No issues.
I never use the iCloud Photo synching, so I don't know much about it.
iCloud Drive also works fine , and contrary to what other people have said, yes, you can see the files synching , it doesn't show it in the menu bar like Dropbox, but inside the iCloud Folder itself.
The only real big complaint I would have is that it's slow, compared to Dropbox of wich Im' a heavy user. Almost twice slower. MobileMe was even worse, it was the slowest cloud service I've ever used. But it actually worked fine too.
On another note, I'm not sure if it really makes sense to compare Dropbox and iCloud Drive. Because I think Apple have simply giving up on creating a real cloud service that competes with Dropbox and the like.
Did you know that Steve Jobs actually tried to buy Dropbox ? He offered them a lot of money, saying that he liked their service and didn't want to start from scratch again to offer a similar one to Apple users ( there's an interview with the DB guys somewhere on the net )
The Dropbox guys refused to sell ( we don't know why ), and Apple was pretty much forced to create iCloud from the ashes of MobileMe. And maybe they thought, "Screw it, It's not worth it to try and make something as complete as Dropbox, we'll just make a simple functionnal service that delivers the basics of synching the users data between devices, and that's it"
Bottom line, I don't think Apple is really trying to compete with Dropbox.
Just like they're not trying to replace Microsoft Office with iWork. iWork is to Office what GarageBand is to LogicPro, or iPhoto to Photoshop. It's just a simpler alternative for "the rest of us", people who are not power users and don't need all the power and complexity of the higher alternatives.
Maybe I'm in the minority then, but I've never had any significant issues ( and I was there during the MobileMe era ). The synching works pretty flawlessly between my 2 macs+iPad+iPhone , albeit a bit slow at times. Mail, Calendar, iOS apps, etc... No issues.
I never use the iCloud Photo synching, so I don't know much about it.
iCloud Drive also works fine , and contrary to what other people have said, yes, you can see the files synching , it doesn't show it in the menu bar like Dropbox, but inside the iCloud Folder itself.
The only real big complaint I would have is that it's slow, compared to Dropbox of wich Im' a heavy user. Almost twice slower. MobileMe was even worse, it was the slowest cloud service I've ever used. But it actually worked fine too.
On another note, I'm not sure if it really makes sense to compare Dropbox and iCloud Drive. Because I think Apple have simply giving up on creating a real cloud service that competes with Dropbox and the like.
Did you know that Steve Jobs actually tried to buy Dropbox ? He offered them a lot of money, saying that he liked their service and didn't want to start from scratch again to offer a similar one to Apple users ( there's an interview with the DB guys somewhere on the net )
The Dropbox guys refused to sell ( we don't know why ), and Apple was pretty much forced to create iCloud from the ashes of MobileMe. And maybe they thought, "Screw it, It's not worth it to try and make something as complete as Dropbox, we'll just make a simple functionnal service that delivers the basics of synching the users data between devices, and that's it"
Bottom line, I don't think Apple is really trying to compete with Dropbox.
Just like they're not trying to replace Microsoft Office with iWork. iWork is to Office what GarageBand is to LogicPro, or iPhoto to Photoshop. It's just a simpler alternative for "the rest of us", people who are not power users and don't need all the power and complexity of the higher alternatives.
Well, I might be OK with it, if Apple takes over my monthly ISP payments.
But seriously: Apple needs to go into their usability labs and *force* their developers work for 3 months on an old DSL connection.
The facts of the matter are that not all of their customer base even has access to high performance bandwidth ... let alone at reasonable prices ... to tolerate the cloud inconnectivity that's being proposed.
-hh
