The document syncing feature of iCloud is hugely disappointing. All I want is something like Google Docs: my document is online, and I can edit it from any computer. What iCloud offers is quite different:
1. If I post a document online at work, and then go home to edit it, I cannot do anything with the document on my home computer UNTIL I open the document on my iPhone. WTF? I sit down at my home computer, and I have to pull out my cell phone, open the document, immediately close the document, and then I get to open it on my iMac??? Why?
2. The system forces you to create and have floating around multiple copies of the same document. Copy 1 created on my work computer. Copy 2 saved to iCloud. Copy 3 downloaded to my home computer. I then make change on my home computer and all of the other versions are obsolete, so I have to go back and delete everything else. Then save it back to iCloud, then open on my iPhone, then download to my work computer for more changes. This is very inelegant, very unlike Apple and not as good as the Google doc system of just having the document online.
If Tim Cook wants to make his own mark, he can start by making Apple less belligerent to people who use Apple products for any purpose other than taking videos of themselves when they are on vacation with their always diverse group of friends.
1. If I post a document online at work, and then go home to edit it, I cannot do anything with the document on my home computer UNTIL I open the document on my iPhone. WTF? I sit down at my home computer, and I have to pull out my cell phone, open the document, immediately close the document, and then I get to open it on my iMac??? Why?
2. The system forces you to create and have floating around multiple copies of the same document. Copy 1 created on my work computer. Copy 2 saved to iCloud. Copy 3 downloaded to my home computer. I then make change on my home computer and all of the other versions are obsolete, so I have to go back and delete everything else. Then save it back to iCloud, then open on my iPhone, then download to my work computer for more changes. This is very inelegant, very unlike Apple and not as good as the Google doc system of just having the document online.
If Tim Cook wants to make his own mark, he can start by making Apple less belligerent to people who use Apple products for any purpose other than taking videos of themselves when they are on vacation with their always diverse group of friends.