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Is iCloud totally worthless?

So...

After 2+ hours of upgrading my iMac, iPad2 and iPhone 4, I find pretty much that iCloud doesn't really work and is totally worthless.

Please correct me if my observations are incorrect:

1) One cannot take text files or MS Office files, and drop them to iCloud. One cannot save them at all if you have a Mac, because Pages in iWork has zero iCloud capability. Which make iCloud totally worthless for native Apple apps.

2) One cannot save PAGES files on an iMac and share them in the iCloud. For the same reason as above

3) One cannot save spreadsheets from Open Office or MS Excel, or even NUMBERS from the iMAC (see 1 and 2 above)

4) There is no support for just dragging and dropping any kind of file to iCloud.

Someone please explain, then, how iCloud is even a willing comparison to Dropbox.

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 10:41 PM

204 replies

Mar 3, 2012 10:31 AM in response to korkyk

I have to say the switch to iCloud was a huge disappointment for me as well. I thought it would add on to MobileMe. It seems that Apple's business since is oozing out somehow. If a customer is willing to pay for something (i.e.- idisk, iweb) then wamybe you should retain these services instead of getting rid of them in your "newer, better" program. That seems to be commensense to me. You can add services, but take away? Since I LOVED idisk, and no alternative was given from apple, I feel like they are pushing me away to other companies' products. So I can sync iOS stuff? When will they realize that in the business world I never see those programs. I wish I did since I prefer them, ** get real. We all have to use Word out there and store files for projects.

Goodbye iCloud. Hello SkyDrive.

Mar 3, 2012 10:44 AM in response to UKenGB

UKenGB

I have no problem syncing any iOS device with iCloud. Could you please explain how you get iCloud to sync docs on the Mac with iOS devices. I've always heard (from Apple) that this is not possible.

TIA

Mar 3, 2012 11:19 AM in response to Satchmo

Please stop riding this pony...

She apologized..Letit go...You're like a bull dog!

capaho

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Mar 3, 2012 6:07 PM in response to HennPaul

HennPaul wrote:

I just discovered this tip: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2711 "Using iCloud as an iDisk". Worked perfectly, but there is an unfortunate limitation in that You can not currently access this folder from an iPad, iPhone, iPod or iCloud.com.

That's because you can't actually use iCloud as an iDisk.

capaho

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Mar 3, 2012 6:10 PM in response to journey_man

Apple did finally add remote access to Time Capsules to iCloud, which resolved my main complaint about it. Of course, that's only useful if you have a Time Capsule. Others have turned to Dropbox to compensate for the demise of the iDisk.

HenryS

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Mar 4, 2012 3:51 AM in response to capaho

I don't find the workaround entirely satisfactory. WIll continue to use Dropbox (free) to store docs and share them as needed. It's limitation (compared with the iDisk features) is that there is no Gallery. My workaround for Galleries is to use either Picasa or Gallery3 (for personal or business uses, respectively). I am getting set for the total demise of iDisk, sadly, and not looking further back than needed.

Does anyone know what the space limitation of the workaround mentioned is? And if not storing on the Cloud where you are storing the info? That seems a bit unclear. If it doesn't store on iCloud it's probably not on the cloud, which means it's not backed up.

Mar 4, 2012 9:12 AM in response to HenryS

This is not great, but I use one workaround by making a favorite folder:

/Users/[username]/Library/Mobile Documents

Basically I use this for GoodReader and Dropbox or Insunc (for Google Docs) for everything else.

It continues to surprise me that Apple is NOT trying to make money in this space.

Csound1

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Mar 4, 2012 9:15 AM in response to HenryS

HenryS wrote:

I don't find the workaround entirely satisfactory. WIll continue to use Dropbox (free)

That's disingenuous, free Dropbox has a 2G limit, if (as many do) you want to store video/audio/photo files up there 2G will not be enough, so Dropbox will not be free.

Mar 22, 2012 3:40 PM in response to korkyk

To sum up, no, iCloud is worse the worthless. It is worse than if Apple did nothing. It destroys so many things... Catastrophic move.

Csound1

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Mar 22, 2012 3:47 PM in response to Azipharel

Azipharel wrote:

To sum up, no, iCloud is worse the worthless. It is worse than if Apple did nothing. It destroys so many things... Catastrophic move.

To sum up?

This one opinion, give it the weight that one opinion deserves. 🙂

Mar 30, 2012 9:47 AM in response to Csound1

That is a bit of stating the obvous - isnt' it?

Of course! This is only my opinion. I am a pretty representative user, and opinions aren't statistics. i.e. not all opinions are equally considered or coming from equally aware people. So you can't just say - more people think X than people who think Y = therefore X is correct...

But it is definitely only one opinion.

Mar 31, 2012 8:04 PM in response to korkyk

I agree, iCloud ***** I'm so tired of syncing my contacts getting duplicates, bookmarks not syncing I would think the trouble Apple had with MobileMe they would learned their lesson I love Apple products, but this attempt for them to implement a cloud base service is very poor to say the least.

Russ

Apr 15, 2012 8:39 PM in response to korkyk

iCloud *****.

I bought an iPhone 3GS and transferred my contacts to it.

I synced with iCloud.

iPhone 3GS was defective, so I had to exchange it.

When I activated the new phone, it wouldn't let me restore from my iCloud backup.

What is the point?

Jun 18, 2012 1:42 PM in response to Csound1

***

I agree with all the other people that iCloud is a major headache!

Csound1

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Jun 18, 2012 4:03 PM in response to Thunderstorm

Thunderstorm wrote:

***

I agree with all the other people that iCloud is a major headache!

I'll stay with the millions of users that managed to set it up correctly then.

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