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Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 9, 2015 at 05:37 PM
Apple’s track record with cloud services is spotty, so I avoid iCloud Drive and iCloud Photo LIbrary. Yosemite tosses frequent warnings about being unable to connect to iCloud Drive—and the subfolders appear and disappear with regularity over here. So, if I have files on iOS that I want to access on the desktop, I go with iOS apps that are not solely dependent on iCloud Drive. iCloud drive stuffs documents in weird locations on the drive—mostly hidden from view. I’m more comfortable with Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., or my own WebDAV server—locations that are transparent and not hidden in some sub-basement in the system areas of the drive.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 9, 2015 at 07:41 PM
Thanks for the responses, Hugh, Franz and Paul. Think I’ll hold off activating iCloud Drive for the time being.
Steve Z.
Posted by Hugh
Feb 13, 2015 at 09:37 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I couldn’t agree more, Hugh, that these “major” operating system
>upgrades should not be necessary. Just fix what doesn’t work right,
>tighten up the code (or whatever it is programmers do) to speed things
>up. They must have been referring to Yosemite Sam, not the National
>Park. I suspect all the aesthetic changes are just a smoke screen so
>that we don’t focus too closely on the fact that Apple continues to
>tighten the noose around users and developers, making it more and more
>difficult to run anything on Macs that Apple doesn’t get a piece of the
>pie from. (Not sure I have a solid footing for making that claim, just a
>suspicion.)
>
>Rant out of the way, maybe some of the new functions of Yosemite and iOS
>8 will become more valuable as apps that take advantage of them work
>their way into my workflow.
>
>Another question for veteran Yosemite users: Is there any value in using
>iCloud Drive? I’ve been reading about it, and it doesn’t seem like it is
>worth activating it, but I’m probably missing something?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Steve Z.
Based presumably on inside knowledge, Mark Gurman is forecasting a “Snow Leopard moment” (i.e. involving optimisation and performance like that OS X version, rather than bags more functionality) for the next iOS upgrade, iOS9: http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/09/apples-ios-9-to-have-huge-stability-and-optimization-focus-after-years-of-feature-additions/ (as quoted by David Sparks of MacSparky).
If that’s true, let’s hope that Apple applies the same logic to OS 10.11. Perhaps we’ll learn to appreciate a “Death Valley moment”? We shall see.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 17, 2015 at 03:50 PM
Okay. I need to eat a little crow here. I am finding that I actually like the new look and feel of Yosemite. Not exactly sure why. The colors are pleasing to me. The simple graphics sort of get out of the way… or don’t call attention to themselves, I guess. Anyway, I just had to acknowledge this after writing what I did earlier (see below).
Steve Z.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I couldn’t agree more, Hugh, that these “major” operating system
>upgrades should not be necessary. Just fix what doesn’t work right,
>tighten up the code (or whatever it is programmers do) to speed things
>up. They must have been referring to Yosemite Sam, not the National
>Park. I suspect all the aesthetic changes are just a smoke screen so
>that we don’t focus too closely on the fact that Apple continues to
>tighten the noose around users and developers, making it more and more
>difficult to run anything on Macs that Apple doesn’t get a piece of the
>pie from. (Not sure I have a solid footing for making that claim, just a
>suspicion.)
>
>Rant out of the way, maybe some of the new functions of Yosemite and iOS
>8 will become more valuable as apps that take advantage of them work
>their way into my workflow.
>
>Another question for veteran Yosemite users: Is there any value in using
>iCloud Drive? I’ve been reading about it, and it doesn’t seem like it is
>worth activating it, but I’m probably missing something?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Steve Z.