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iCloud Development Held Up By 'Deep Organizational Issues' at Apple
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If I recall correctly,
the iphoto replacement on OS X was announced for March 2015. So yes, we are waiting for it, but the whole thing is not overdue! And yes they I expect them to give 10 to 15G instead of 5 for free as the 5 we currently have, will not cut it.
Looking forward though,
T
If I recall correctly,
the iphoto replacement on OS X was announced for March 2015. So yes, we are waiting for it, but the whole thing is not overdue! And yes they I expect them to give 10 to 15G instead of 5 for free as the 5 we currently have, will not cut it.
Looking forward though,
T
Except the email service is total garbage. Emails not deleting (keep coming back), push being very unreliable, emails not deleting on other devices when you delete on iPhone, etc etc etc.
Sorry Apple, but Microsoft and Exchange win this time. Still baffles me how the richest company on the planet is incapable of doing push notifications and synchronization properly, something even BlackBerry had basically mastered over a decade ago.
Actually No. You think someone from the outside is going to magically be like Steve Jobs. Hardly. Tim Cook knows Apple because he is from the inside. And Steve personally chose him. Remember what happened to Apple when they ousted Steve and brought that idiot John Sculley? Uh huh. Yeah.
iTunes Match has been pretty terrible for me too. It gradually wrecked all my song ratings, destroyed genius playlists over the course of the last 18 months. I tried wiping resetting eveything so I could re-rate my songs. It started working and then suddenly the next day most of the song ratings were reset again. Most, not all, some of the ratings stuck locally and in the cloud.
Editing song data such as genre also get lost. I tried changing the Taylor Swift track "Shake It Off" from Genre "Country" to "Pop" 20 times. The change never appears to get synced with the cloud, and my local iTunes copy goes back to Genre "Country" within a day. And it's done this for hundreds of other tracks too.
I've just gone back to using a local iTunes library now.
An utter mess for me but i know others are having a great iTunes Match experience. So I refuse to criticise Apple too harshly.
they were probably half way thru it, got bored and moved onto something else
Well, I think you're in the minority with your opinion. Mac OS X is leagues better to use than the Classic Mac OS.
How is stuff like this free? Will it stay free? If not, will I be able to afford it after I grow dependent on it?
Just so you don't feel alone I shall second this.
I have found iCloud to be wonderful for my purposes. Editing a document on one device and having it appear ready fo editing on another without the need to sync anything or save to a folder is fabulous.
Yea. . . I'm still not touching Google with 20 ft pole
Oh, I definitely understand. I just wish Apple was releasing mobile apps with the quality of Google's latest offerings.
So you're saying you're discounting the fact that 2 completely different people are running the company differently.
People "whining" doesn't change this fact. Tim Cook is running a mess of Apple. This is a fact. iCloud, Maps, 8.0.1, you name it. This is Tim Cook's Apple.
Understand this: The products Apple is releasing don't compete even remotely with more mature offerings. Apple needs to step its game. Why go with iCloud Photo Library when Picturelife or Dropbox's Carsousel are INFINITELY better. Why go with Maps, when Google has the process locked down? Why use iWork, when MS Office is vastly better and more robust and continuously updated?
Apple is a one trick pony. iPhone. Everything else they try to make is inferior.
I tend to agree. I also, reluctantly, find myself agreeing more and more that there are major products coming out of Apple (iCloud and iWork being the biggest on my radar) that simply don't compete with the market. These are disturbing warning signs that the company is struggling.
I'm not a dude.
Forgive me for not typing it put myself, I'm laid up with a nasty kidney infection.
The first 8GB is free. 100GB is $100 AND you get to share that with 2 other people with their own accounts. $150 you can go unlimited, up to 3 people, each on their own account.
Most people need only 100GB. It grows with you for $50 more once you're passed the 100GB limit.
Maybe they should reconsider their decision to scrap Aperture.
And maybe they should consider getting away from this insane yearly OS release nonsense. They are clearly releasing things not yet ready for prime time (iOS 8, OSX 10.10).
The "core rot" at Apple is getting worse.
10.10 was fine because of public beta testing. IOS 8 was a failure.
Apple dropping the ball again with services. Shocking...not. Tim Cook has had it easy with iterative releases of successful products like iPhone, iPad, etc. But iCloud still has a long way to go, and the supply chain master clearly isn't a product guy, so who knows what kind of guidance iCloud is getting at the CEO level. Maybe none while he lets lower level people fight it out. Time to earn your millions, Tim. Get it together.
However, at this point in time there is a Metadata bug. I can't believe other people haven't talked much about it. With older scanned photos I create a metadata header and then edit the metadata and upload them the iCloud Photo library ... but it won't read the time information. I have tried using iPhoto, Picasa, Adobe Bridge and a command-line tool to change the metadata without success. I am thinking that if they are still working on macro-level aspects of this service it might be months before a small bug like this is fixed.
I had this problem as well. What I did was this:
1. Import the photos into iPhoto, and set the date/time for each photo (or use the batch change option) within iPhoto.
2. Choose "share" in the lower right of the iPhoto window, and chose iCloud Photo Stream.
3. On the iOS device, go to the photo stream that was just created (called iCloud Photo Sharing on iOS), and save those images to the device. Then delete the photo stream if desired.
Every time I have done this, the images have been placed in the Years/Collections/Moments correctly.
Videos are another story - I haven't had success getting them to reliably appear where they should, and location data for photos is hit or miss as well. Sometimes it carries over and sometimes it does not. I'm still trying to work that out.
Hope this helps.
No iCloud for me
I don't want to trust the iCloud for anything. There are 4 macs in my household and 3 iPhones. Every single one has iCloud disabled.
If the new Photos app will work locally only then I will use it. Otherwise I will stick to iPhoto. I sync what I want to sync between devices, do my backups myself.
I don't want to trust the iCloud for anything. There are 4 macs in my household and 3 iPhones. Every single one has iCloud disabled.
If the new Photos app will work locally only then I will use it. Otherwise I will stick to iPhoto. I sync what I want to sync between devices, do my backups myself.
There are two types of technology users. Those that adapt, and those that don't adapt. Don't be in the second group, you won't be happy.