That's fine to have cloud options but we need what you call "local optimization" as well.
If an iPad had a Finder I could simply access and browse my Mac Pro's hard drive. Simple and elegant. With a little foresight I can load what I need on my iPad for the day. And I don't have to have internet access when I need my files! Brilliant, don't you think? Almost magical.
Oh, that kind of
arcane magic. That's how my Palm worked around 2003. It was a pain, and I ended up not using it much. I guess it was not only me, seeing their fate.
Incidentally, that's the same fate that the memory cards have had in Android, right?
Isn't that converging evolution already a strong hint?
Look, this is about preferences and not-really-fair comparisons, so it's not like I can say anything too interesting. Buy my data point/anecdote is that once you limit what can be done but allow to do it without even thinking, suddenly I'm using all kinds of things that I didn't
even when I was consciously trying to. And I see other people falling in the same pattern, both techies and non-techies.
My take is that what you call foresight in practice is more like "oh, I have these files here but what I need/would like to have is those other ones. Ok, *tomorrow* I'll do that".
That's why you have <double-digit> GBs of music in your phone, when in theory 1 GB is enough for longer than 12 hours of continous listening. How many apps do you plan to use today? Do you*really* need that much storage in your phone? Of course not.
In theory, you only need some foresight and discipline, and a file manager.
Anyway. Maybe you have the foresight and discipline. Have you tried any of the 100s of apps that just work as storage, and that can work as samba clients and servers, and etc etc? If you want to be moving files around, there are plenty of options.
(finally, note that I'm not saying that Apple's got it perfect. But everything considered, this is certainly working much better than the simplistic filesystem accessing that was commonplace before)
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this service is not a backup.
delete it on yr local and it deletes it everywhere.
this is a sync service to make available anywhere your currently used and frequently accessed files
not a backup.
Yes, I used the word "backup" too soon. My bad.
And yet, I'd still argue that for someone without backups, this is a step in the right direction: again, it's replication for the information in a device that could get stolen or fail suddenly.
Let's hope Apple ends up adding real backups. TimeCapsule on the iCloud?
