iCloud musings

[Anastasius]

An elderly tired MacBook on Lion in my workshop predicated the need to get something a bit more modern as I needed to easily access SketchUp drawings from house or workshop. Lion is too old for iCloud document sharing so in with the 'new'.

Bought a not quite so elderly 2011 MacBook Pro...it's even got High Sierra on it (which was a bonus to try out the newer ways of working to decide if we continued to lurch on with our impoverished and elderly 2009 iMacs). It's also got an SSD which was a revelation. And , of course, full iCloud support. Left it to cook for a while and TBH forgot about it for the rest of the day.

Today I had need of it, took it out and fired it up...and there were all my emails, settings, bookmarks, documents etc courtesy of iCloud. I'm a convert.

[richardfinegold]

Has it’s pros and cons. One major con was when it attempted to upload people’s iTunes collections to the iCloud without authorization, ruining many people’s collections, including mine, in the process. It’s is nice to be able to access everything from one device, even though they may actually reside in different places

[Stunsworth]

When I tried Apple Music I deliberately avoided the option to sync everything in the cloud - I had too much for it anyway. I'm pretty sure I was asked if I wanted everything syncing.

Other than that I think it's very useful to have everything centralised.

[richardfinegold]

When I tried Apple Music I deliberately avoided the option to sync everything in the cloud - I had too much for it anyway. I'm pretty sure I was asked if I wanted everything syncing.

Other than that I think it's very useful to have everything centralised.

I was never asked, they just did it...turns out that this happened with perhaps 50,000 people according to some IT sources.
Yes, it is nice to have everything centralized. I don’t even mind that the Apple Home Pod syncs only with Apple sources...I have enough music in those sources to last several lifetimes and the little thing sounds amazing.