{"id":13509,"date":"2016-02-12T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2016-02-12T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:31:20","slug":"icloud-is-too-opaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/12\/icloud-is-too-opaque\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Is Too Opaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2016\/02\/icloud-is-too-opaque.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2016\/02\/icloud-is-too-opaque.html\">\n<p>Last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viticci\/status\/697911652142968832\">Federico Viticci tweeted<\/a> that he lost a draft blog post he was working on because of an iCloud problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &ldquo;Just lost 1.5k words I had prepared for tomorrow because I wanted to try iCloud sync instead of Dropbox this week.&rdquo;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I hear that people love iCloud Photo Library and Notes, and that the quality of these apps and companion services has significantly improved. That&rsquo;s great. (I also think that CloudKit is clearly the best thing Apple has built for syncing yet.)<\/p>\n<p>But to me, it doesn&rsquo;t matter if it&rsquo;s reliable or fast, or even if it &ldquo;always&rdquo; works. It only matters if I trust it when something goes wrong. Conceptually I&rsquo;m not sure iCloud will ever get there for me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-02-12): <a href=\"http:\/\/sudophilosophical.com\/2016\/02\/12\/546\/\">Paul Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/sudophilosophical.com\/2016\/02\/12\/546\/\"><p>I migrated to a Dropbox and Adobe Lightroom based workflow because of performance, reliability, power, and predictability. Perhaps Photos is simpler and more convenient for most consumers, but it just is too risky and too opaque for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manton Reece: Last night, Federico Viticci tweeted that he lost a draft blog post he was working on because of an iCloud problem: &ldquo;Just lost 1.5k words I had prepared for tomorrow because I wanted to try iCloud sync instead of Dropbox this week.&rdquo; [&#8230;] I hear that people love iCloud Photo Library and Notes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,47,16,913,31,1137],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-dropbox","tag-icloud","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-9"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13557,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions\/13557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}