How Apple Sees the Cloud: Not Like You Do
June 4, 2014
Grazed from Yahoo. Author: Rob Pegoraro.
The news from Apple at Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference left me with the same impression I’ve had about many presentations from the company: This looks neat, but at what point will I find my data or my apps on the wrong side of an elegantly designed, Apple-built wall?
iCloud still closed
For a worst-case example, see the new iCloud Drive online storage system. In a welcome and overdue fix, iCloud will now let you get at online files through the desktop Finder, not just in the Open and Save dialogs of particular apps. This desktop access will be reserved for the Finder in the upcoming OS X Yosemite (which will at least be free). Apple’s preview page, however, says Windows uploading will be limited to just Windows 8 — as in, the version that CEO Tim Cook mocked at the start of the WWDC keynote for running on a mere 14 percent of PCs…
Want to connect to iCloud from an Android device? Forget it. And the Web access that came with Apple’s long-gone iDisk isn’t an option either — except for photos, which you will be able to view in a browser…
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