On 31 May 2017, at 19:36, Jody Klymak wrote:
The advantage of iCloud is that it is a system-supported synchronization solution that has a well-defined API. I also believe that storing keys-value pairs just defaults to local storage if iCloud isn’t available and/or not selected by the user, and hence is no different than an app that only stores preferences locally. Its *not* the same solution as saving *.plist files to a program-defined database on an arbitrary server like Dropbox because Dropbox has no easy programatic way to warn a local version of the program not to write a preference because a copy already exists that was modified on another device. Conversely, iCloud has a whole API for that.
On the other hand, iCloud is there or not there at Apple’s whim. I had everything syncing using MobileMe (or whatever it was called), then they just removed it. I don’t use iCloud at all because I don’t want to become reliant on it as I did before. Dropbox makes money out of their extended services and so should continue. They could drop their free services that so many of us use, but the bad press they would get if they did so would impact them hard.
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