{"id":7473,"date":"2013-05-30T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2013-05-30T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:42:05","slug":"document-based-icloud-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/document-based-icloud-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Document-Based iCloud Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/an-apple-developer-explains-how-icloud-is-broken\">Max Seelemann<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/an-apple-developer-explains-how-icloud-is-broken\"><p>The most problematic part for us was understanding Apple&rsquo;s NSFileCoordinator APIs and the many issues we had with it. The thing is: it looks simple, the methods are certainly simple and the documentation is written in a simple way -- but it&rsquo;s use is everything but simple.<em> In retrospective, we get the impression that the whole system seems to have been tested for Apple&rsquo;s standard use only.<\/em> That is, a user-managed single layer of folders, with occasional opening, saving and renaming of a few monolithic files. Pages, Keynote, traditional document-based apps. However, while the underlying APIs are designed and documented for broader use and more advanced situations, they soon start to fail if being used like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Seelemann: The most problematic part for us was understanding Apple&rsquo;s NSFileCoordinator APIs and the many issues we had with it. The thing is: it looks simple, the methods are certainly simple and the documentation is written in a simple way -- but it&rsquo;s use is everything but simple. In retrospective, we get the impression [&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":[131,69,16,30,32,269],"class_list":["post-7473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-cocoa","tag-icloud","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473","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=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}