You say no iCloud drive app? then explain this.

[cynics]

Yeah, you're right. I still am not in luck for transferring files to iCloud Drive though.

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Click the .zip and mail it? Or upload it to Dropbox? Nothing wrong with central file storage.

So your saying the benefit of an iCloud app would just be list of random files that when you click on you get a list of random apps that might be able to do something with that file?

Wouldn't that be counter intuitive? Meaning if you want to email something you open email then add attachments not work backwards starting from the file you want to attach.

While not the case 100% of the time but I personally am opening apps on my phone or programs on my computer to get to files not going through finder or windows explorer to get to files then opening the program.

There is nothing wrong with centralized storage. But having it and having an app to look at it are two different things.

Now instead of files being sandboxed to the app that's using it, it has a centralized storage place that other apps can access it. Meaning Adobe reader and iBooks can use the same file, not just the one stored in their app data.

 

[Belmont31R]

So your saying the benefit of an iCloud app would just be list of random files that when you click on you get a list of random apps that might be able to do something with that file?

Wouldn't that be counter intuitive? Meaning if you want to email something you open email then add attachments not work backwards starting from the file you want to attach.

While not the case 100% of the time but I personally am opening apps on my phone or programs on my computer to get to files not going through finder or windows explorer to get to files then opening the program.

There is nothing wrong with centralized storage. But having it and having an app to look at it are two different things.

Now instead of files being sandboxed to the app that's using it, it has a centralized storage place that other apps can access it. Meaning Adobe reader and iBooks can use the same file, not just the one stored in their app data.

Its more about managing your storage, creating folders, moving data around to different locations, and being able to see everything you have stored in iCloud Drive from one place.


its great that apps can open stuff from within their own app, and use iCloud Drive, but I still want a central app that shows me everything I have, and lets me manage it and share from one place.

I have photos I placed on iCloud Drive using Finder in Yosemite, and I have no way to view them from my phone. I would have to import them into iPhoto, and then into iCloud.

Or I can access them through the DropBox app. I find this amusingly hilarious that I need another 3rd party cloud app to view photos I have in Apple's own cloud storage because they don't have a native app.

 

[RosOne]

I uploaded a .gif to iCloud Drive using the iCloud website on my PC. I would like to send this .gif to someone. For example mail it with Apple's Mail app. I don't see this functionality.

I wrote a spreadsheet in Numbers before iCloud Drive was available. I could access it on any iOS device using the Numbers app, I could access it fine on the iCloud website and I could download the spreadsheet if I wanted to.

So what's the benefit with iCloud Drive? The backing up functionality is as convenient as keeping my files as attachments in Gmail.

 

[eddiec312]

I uploaded a .gif to iCloud Drive using the iCloud website on my PC. I would like to send this .gif to someone. For example mail it with Apple's Mail app. I don't see this functionality.

I wrote a spreadsheet in Numbers before iCloud Drive was available. I could access it on any iOS device using the Numbers app, I could access it fine on the iCloud website and I could download the spreadsheet if I wanted to.

So what's the benefit with iCloud Drive? The backing up functionality is as convenient as keeping my files as attachments in Gmail.

This. It seems iCloud drive will not have the functionality as my Google drive where I can upload anything and share it with anyone by emailing it to them or sending them a download link. Completely useless.