iCloud Comes Back to Earth

This just in:  The iCloud from Apple is a dud.

Did Apple rush to push out iCloud?

For a company that I have always admired in its simplistic thinking, so far advanced over those folks from Redmond, Washington who have taken the Apple Operating system and modeled it’s various Windows platforms after.

Apple is always thinking outside of the box and light years ahead with new technology, but there is one thing that the Cupertino Capuchinos have stumbled on in its latest venture: the iCloud.

What a dud.

Cloud computing is the not just the future, it is the present. Online storage, online printing, online file sharing is so much more dependable than old-fashioned jump drives (would you trust an important document on something 2 inches long that you could easily lose or throw away?)

The concept of the iCloud got me thinking that Apple was again ready to take this concept and run with it. I have been using Dropbox (it’s free) to backup files and access documents on my computer at home and at work.

The iCloud offers access to your contacts, photos (photo stream), documents (if you use iLife), and mail, if you use anything other than Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc.

In my short trip around the cloud, I was ready to come back down to earth. Contacts didn’t sync, and I use an iPhone where they are perfectly matched up with my Outlook exchange at work. 

Mail - not going to bother with that one.

iWorks – nope.

Which brings me to Photostream. Again, another good concept to have all photos I’ve taken during a 30-day period, dispersed onto all of my gadgets.  But there is no control over these images and if you try to delete one, yes, it actually happens Apple when I may have been a little trigger happy when taking a photo of my gas grill, there is no way of doing it without resetting the entire stream.

Huh? 

Who came up with that concept?  Was Apple just rushed to push something out without really thinking it through?

I am sure the Sultans of Silicon Valley will make some adjustments, but I’ve turned it off and have taken advantage of the many uses of old reliable Dropbox.

I suggest you do the same.