Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models

From	dgb (David) <david@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models
Date	2024-03-08 08:44 +0000
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On 8 Mar 2024 at 01:38:22 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> On 7 Mar 2024 at 23:04:03 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>>> On 7 Mar 2024 at 21:32:54 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On 7 Mar 2024 at 16:42:05 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I believe iCloud can and does store material without necessarily
>>>>>>>> sending it to other Apple devices.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That's not its primary purpose though. As exampled, photos,
>>>>>>> contacts, reminders, calendars, iCloud Drive documents, app
>>>>>>> settings, and so on are all synchronized between all of your
>>>>>>> devices. Add one and it appears on all of your devices. Remove
>>>>>>> one from one device, and it gets removed from iCloud and your
>>>>>>> other devices.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I totally accept that!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, I can store any other item I wish.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, but the default behavior is if you delete it, it gets deleted
>>>>> from your other devices.
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps you are not aware of changes made to iCloud.
>>>> 
>>>> If you put Documents into iCloud, they are not added to iPhone
>>>> and/or iPad.
>>>> 
>>>> See:-
>>>> https://i.ibb.co/ZfPsSjg/Screenshot-2024-03-07-at-22-19-10.png
>>> 
>>> No, that's incorrect. iCloud Drive is not a generic cloud file
>>> storage service. Things you add to iCloud Drive are made available to
>>> all of the Apple devices that are logged in with the same Apple ID.
>> 
>> "Made available to" ......... I accept that. But not installed upon.
> 
> I'm not sure what you are here arguing about. When I take a photo on one
> device, it is transferred to my other devices. When I add a contact on
> one device, it is transferred to my other devices. When I add or change
> a calendar event, the same thing happens on my other devices. iCloud is
> primarily a synchronization service, but it does other things as well.

We are in agreement!

> You seem to want to argue that because iCloud Drive doesn't always
> automatically download changes to each device that somehow means it's
> just like any other cloud storage service, but that's simply not the
> case. Most data in iCloud is synchronized to all of your devices, and if
> you delete something from iCloud Drive it gets deleted everywhere else.

I don't want to argue at all!

> It is *not* a generic cloud storage service.

There is VERY little difference - but the iCloud is smarter than most! ;-)

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