Apple in the Cloud: What I’d Love to See

 

For a company that’s in the mobile business as heavily as Apple is, its cloud strategy is embarrassing. Some parts of MobileMe work fine, like contact, bookmark, and calendar, but others, like iDisk, fall on their face so often I can’t count on them for production work. After one too many syncing errors, I’ve found iDisk to be a great place to store large files I want remote access to, but it’s not reliable enough for my day-to-day syncing; for that I use Dropbox. Lets face it, while the “It just works” slogan is mostly accurate, Apple’s Cloud strategy just doesn’t play well.

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