Apple on Tuesday began widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.7.3, the third maintenance update to its relatively new Lion operating system that will improve upon iCloud's Documents in the Cloud, among a handful of other areas.
The handful of other areas to be addressed should include:
1) Need ability to delete photos from Photostream;
MobileMe had an external API that developers really didn't want to leverage. iCloud is built right to the standard Cocoa API which makes it far easier to incorporate into an app as a developer.
iCloud does key value data which MobileMe didn't.
iCloud handles conflict resolution which MobileMe didn't which meant that often I had to do this myself when too many of my contacts or calendar data changed.
iCloud does LAN sync. If I've got multiple Macs and I need to move a large file that file never goes across the WAN into the Cloud...iCloud sends the file to the other Macs over the LAN and then updates the metadata in the cloud.
MobileMe and Dropbox both have an issue. They really only sync documents they don't sync small bits of info. Therefore you see Dropbox as a solution for apps that you can save a document or database file to. iCloud isn't encumbered with this and it works right in Core Data (OS X persistent storage API) for documents, packaged files and key value.
iCloud may not be perfect in 1.0 but architecturally it's light years beyond MobileMe or Dropbox IMO.
I have a question re iCloud Match you might know the answer to if you don't mind me asking... It's working great for me but I have a weird anomaly. Some of my ripped CDs, (I am looking at my entire Eagles Collection) have several tracks uploaded while the majority are matched. I cannot figure out why it cannot match them all. They were all purchased in the UK before I moved to the States ... but I doubt that's connected.
I have a question re iCloud Match you might know the answer to if you don't mind me asking... It's working great for me but I have a weird anomaly. Some of my ripped CDs, (I am looking at my entire Eagles Collection) have several tracks uploaded while the majority are matched. I cannot figure out why it cannot match them all. They were all purchased in the UK before I moved to the States ... but I doubt that's connected.
dc
I haven't gone iTM yet but I tell you that I'm hearing friends and colleagues say the same thing. Certain songs from an album will be ineligible while the rest of the album isn't. It doesn't make sense and i've not gotten the answer yet.
I've put off ripping all of my CD until the right time but with iTM it appears that time is nigh.
I enter a contact on my phone and it shows up on my MacBook Pro and my iPad nearly instantaneously.
I got my iPhone 4 (no S) one day after iCloud was launched. I pulled the phone from its box, connected to my iCloud account and voilÃ*: all my contacts and calenders were there. Thruly amazing.
But having said that, syncing my bookmarks with iCloud doesn't work at all well, so I just use iTunes for that for the time being.
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Apple on Tuesday began widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.7.3, the third maintenance update to its relatively new Lion operating system that will improve upon iCloud's Documents in the Cloud, among a handful of other areas.
The handful of other areas to be addressed should include:
MobileMe is a Model-T compared to iCloud
for instance
MobileMe had an external API that developers really didn't want to leverage. iCloud is built right to the standard Cocoa API which makes it far easier to incorporate into an app as a developer.
iCloud does key value data which MobileMe didn't.
iCloud handles conflict resolution which MobileMe didn't which meant that often I had to do this myself when too many of my contacts or calendar data changed.
iCloud does LAN sync. If I've got multiple Macs and I need to move a large file that file never goes across the WAN into the Cloud...iCloud sends the file to the other Macs over the LAN and then updates the metadata in the cloud.
MobileMe and Dropbox both have an issue. They really only sync documents they don't sync small bits of info. Therefore you see Dropbox as a solution for apps that you can save a document or database file to. iCloud isn't encumbered with this and it works right in Core Data (OS X persistent storage API) for documents, packaged files and key value.
iCloud may not be perfect in 1.0 but architecturally it's light years beyond MobileMe or Dropbox IMO.
I have a question re iCloud Match you might know the answer to if you don't mind me asking... It's working great for me but I have a weird anomaly. Some of my ripped CDs, (I am looking at my entire Eagles Collection) have several tracks uploaded while the majority are matched. I cannot figure out why it cannot match them all. They were all purchased in the UK before I moved to the States ... but I doubt that's connected.
I have a question re iCloud Match you might know the answer to if you don't mind me asking... It's working great for me but I have a weird anomaly. Some of my ripped CDs, (I am looking at my entire Eagles Collection) have several tracks uploaded while the majority are matched. I cannot figure out why it cannot match them all. They were all purchased in the UK before I moved to the States ... but I doubt that's connected.
dc
I haven't gone iTM yet but I tell you that I'm hearing friends and colleagues say the same thing. Certain songs from an album will be ineligible while the rest of the album isn't. It doesn't make sense and i've not gotten the answer yet.
I've put off ripping all of my CD until the right time but with iTM it appears that time is nigh.
I enter a contact on my phone and it shows up on my MacBook Pro and my iPad nearly instantaneously.
I got my iPhone 4 (no S) one day after iCloud was launched. I pulled the phone from its box, connected to my iCloud account and voilÃ*: all my contacts and calenders were there. Thruly amazing.
But having said that, syncing my bookmarks with iCloud doesn't work at all well, so I just use iTunes for that for the time being.