I quite like Apple's new Notes app but wonder why they chose to use Google's servers for syncing ?
Basically, during Notes syncing the system process cloudd (OSX 10.11.0) does a DNS lookup for the host: gcs-eu-00001.storage.googleapis.com
which (where I live anyway) is returned as a CNAME pointing to:
storage.l.googleusercontent.com (whose IPv4 address is: 64.233.166.128)
It uses TCP port 80, but thankfully appears to be TLSv1.2 based rather than clear text.
I've done a little testing and Notes will only sync from my iOS 9.1 device to my Mac if I allow the cloudd system process to talk to this server, which I presume belongs to Google (+whois confirms).
Does anyone have any idea why Apple wouldn't use their own servers for syncing Notes data ?
Basically, during Notes syncing the system process cloudd (OSX 10.11.0) does a DNS lookup for the host: gcs-eu-00001.storage.googleapis.com
which (where I live anyway) is returned as a CNAME pointing to:
storage.l.googleusercontent.com (whose IPv4 address is: 64.233.166.128)
It uses TCP port 80, but thankfully appears to be TLSv1.2 based rather than clear text.
I've done a little testing and Notes will only sync from my iOS 9.1 device to my Mac if I allow the cloudd system process to talk to this server, which I presume belongs to Google (+whois confirms).
Does anyone have any idea why Apple wouldn't use their own servers for syncing Notes data ?
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