Lets just jump right to the kicker. All the cloud services sync up to any ios device you own, and appleTV. thats fine, but still very limited. How can I access icloud without ios? Say, with a pc or a linux laptop? The only option I've found is the icloud web interface...which is rather dissapointing.
And my first visit to icloud.com turned into an "um...what?" moment.
- Dude, where are my pictures? Photostream isnt even viewable from here? Wacky! I'm guessing you might be able to sync up photostream with itunes on pc, but havent even looked yet - kind of pointless thing for me anyway, I'd rather have it available on the web.
- Contacts and calendar? Ok, sure, thats neat but not something I use since all that is on my iphone already.
- Mail and FindMyPhone are old services rolled into the new icloud domain. The mail is just me.com mail (if you setup a me account) and the find my phone stuff isnt cloud storage related.
- iWorks is the only service they expose that is an actual cloud based service, but its locked down to folks who paid for iworks apps on ios. Since I dont have iworks, I cant truly test out what this service even does. I assume it renders a web app version of your files, but my guess is they wont allow file downloads (that seems to be the key point for all their icloud stuff - no direct file access, you must use ios x_x)
- Cloud backups. No more syncing my phone with itunes! Hooray! I really hope we can do iphone updates over the air in the future too so I could remove itunes from my pc if I really wanted to.
- Sync music/video from itunes over the air. Again, nice to be able to keep my device up to date without plugging in to sync with itunes. I could start using Linux now that I dont need itunes to keep my iphone in sync! yay!
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