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iCloud (pay for extra space) or Synology (my own personal cloud) which works better with iOS ?
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depends on if you want to use 3rd party app for your file management or the native apps such as "Photos"
What's your purpose?
iCloud is a sync'ing mechanism to allow you to access you data from multiple devices.
From my perspective it has two core stumbling blocks:
1) you can't force an upload
2) uploading of large files is painfully slow even with fast internet connections.
Competitors' products from eg Google are better at both of these things, from my experience.
Yet I chose iCloud because my Apple-based kit works more seamlessly using iCloud than an alternative solution, just as Apple intended, so I choose to live with the compromises.
iCloud is a sync'ing mechanism to allow you to access you data from multiple devices.
From my perspective it has two core stumbling blocks:
1) you can't force an upload
2) uploading of large files is painfully slow even with fast internet connections.
Competitors' products from eg Google are better at both of these things, from my experience.
Yet I chose iCloud because my Apple-based kit works more seamlessly using iCloud than an alternative solution, just as Apple intended, so I choose to live with the compromises.
Are you talking about just storage use? What do you want to achieve? I wish you had provided more useful information ahead, particularly someone with your long posting history.
At least from your typical restore and backup perspective, only iCloud is an integrated and automated solution.
I think it's worth mentioning that iCloud is NOT a backup/restore solution.
It's purely a sync'ing solution.
If you think it's a backup solution, come let me know how great it is at restoring a file from two months ago you only just noticed you deleted. Or in my case, even just the day after, when I realised I'd accidentally deleted 300GB of Apple Lossless CD rips. (Thankfully I had those stored in a TM backup.)
It's purely a sync'ing solution.
If you think it's a backup solution, come let me know how great it is at restoring a file from two months ago you only just noticed you deleted. Or in my case, even just the day after, when I realised I'd accidentally deleted 300GB of Apple Lossless CD rips. (Thankfully I had those stored in a TM backup.)
iCloud is the only solution that would allow the user to restore an iOS device though. Sure it doesn’t do versioned backups like Time Machine does. But in a use case where one or more users have no traditional computers in their regular workflow iCloud makes a good snapshot of an iOS device’s setup should something happen to that device.
True enough I guess. My fault for giving an out-of-context answer having already been bitten with that, thinking I could just casually log into iCloud and restore from Recently Deleted. It turned out to be a big fat 'no'.