How to locally sync an iPhone with OS X Mavericks? iCloud is NOT an option.

Csound1 wrote:

The US does not rank very high amongst 'connected' countries, it is far from the best (Korea)

:-) LOL it's strange if true, as one of the biggest advocates of cloud storage is a US company(Apple), is it not?

No, the US will catch up if there is demand for better service, some countries are ahead and some are behind, but they are all improving.

The US ranks 11th (up from 15th a few years ago)

Here's a link to the top 20

Csound1 wrote:

No, the US will catch up if there is demand for better service, some countries are ahead and some are behind, but they are all improving.

The US ranks 11th (up from 15th a few years ago)

Here's a link to the top 20

LOL that's what is SO! funny. The trends for cloud storages is being lead by companys like Apple who are based in a contry that is only 11th able to support it. Yes I know some will say that customers tell companys what they want but my view is often company will produse something that they then try and get people to use.

We'll just disagree then.

Csound1 wrote:

No, the US will catch up if there is demand for better service, some countries are ahead and some are behind, but they are all improving.

The US ranks 11th (up from 15th a few years ago)

Here's a link to the top 20

"36.6 megabits per second" thats still a lot faster then my 2 megabits or 20 depending on where in Greece or the UK I am working

Csound1 wrote:

We'll just disagree then.

Disagree on what? (that Apple are one of the biggest advocates of Cloud technology or that they are based in the US or that the US is only 11th with internet coverage............?) you don't say what you are disagreeing with?

I'm in the UK (London) I have a 40Mb/s connection (Sky) which is fairly common in London, at my house in Chicago I have a 50Mb/s connection (for a slightly higher price). I also have family in Italy (Florence) and France (Provence) regularly, all have 25Mb/s or better connections.

The improvement over the last 5 years has been considerable, I see no reason for it to stop.

TopSteve wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

We'll just disagree then.

Disagree on what? (that Apple are one of the biggest advocates of Cloud technology or that they are based in the US or that the US is only 11th with internet coverage............?) you don't say what you are disagreeing with?

I don't disagree with the figures, I disagree with your conclusions. Much of the world now has access to fast connections (10Mb/s or more) fast enough for for online systems to be viable for most purposes. and that situation has improved every year since the internet became available.

iCloud is hardly a pioneer, online storage and sync goes back to before MS Exchange launched, and that was nearly 20 years ago. And it is far from alone.

It was you who gave the link showing the US to be 11th and that link gave the average figure of 30 something and now your giving your personal figures. Please stop being inconsistent.

Yes we are in Agreement that things like speed will continue to improve.

TopSteve wrote:

It was you who gave the link showing the US to be 11th and that link gave the average figure of 30 something and now your giving your personal figures. Please stop being inconsistent.

You do understand that an average is not the same thing as every persons individual speed I hope?

Speeds as high as 1Gb/s are available in the US, but that is not the average.

Just as you may get 2Mb/s in Greece, but it is still not the average.

YES I DO UNDERSTAND THAT AVERAGE IS NOT THE SAME AS INDIVIDUAL. It was you who first posted about the US as being 11th. I was just looking at things from that point of view and it was that post that gave me a good LOL.

Happy to amuse you.

Csound1 wrote:

Happy to amuse you.

Opps! me bad! What gave me the :-) was thinking, "I would have thought that internet services like iCloud would be devloped by a company in the contry that is 1st in internet speeds but it was a company in a cuntry that is 11th and was 15th" I would have not had this funny thought if the link to the artical saying the US was 11th had not been posted. I also was thinking "Why would the ablity for "local-sync" be disabled in a OS from a company that is from a country that is 11th, why would that company wate untell coverage at good speeds was better befor going down this route?" that gave me a little giggle to.

So it was my thought that gave me the giggles but that thought was prompted by your post.

As for the speeds you personaly get, I am envious!

Out of 192 countries in the world the USA ranks 11th

And you think that is bad?

Csound1 wrote:

Out of 192 countries in the world the USA ranks 11th

And you think that is bad?

Where did I say or say I thought that was bad? No I don't think it's bad but it's not as good as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 or 10th