I actually used to work for AppleCare phone support, and I pulled every string I could to figure out why this happens to me. Seeing it right now, before it's really taken off to widespread customer adoption, is like seeing a text-only HTML browser in the early CERN days - yes it's cute and all, but not obviously exciting unless you understand the backend technology and how THAT differs from what has gone before. Really, don't criticize iCloud unless you understand the problem it is trying to solve and just how much it brings to the table. They've then bolted on various ad hoc mechanisms to allow you to make changes away from the server, but these mechanisms don't seem nearly as elegant or as robust as Apple's solutions - not to mention that Google's solutions are all Google apps, not APIs available to all apps.
Google's solution for example, appears to be to push every change you make to the server immediately, and to regard the server as "the truth".
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The iCloud infrastructure - the REAL infrastructure, in terms of APIs and design patterns for how to keep multiple devices in sync, and how to write app code that deals with this problem - is far ahead of anything else I've seen. It's not clear to me that this is true anymore. "Google is so far ahead in terms of function and flexibility it's not even funny." I may enjoy my Apple Kit and OS X, but I'm not going to avoid other company's services just because there's a different logo on the "box." Use the best of everything! Google is so far ahead in terms of function and flexibility it's not even funny. As others have intoned, and the article hints at this as well, one thing Apple has never grasped is how to do internet services well. That being said, I set up a Google Apps account with my own domain a few years back and use that for anything of importance and couldn't be happier. I still have (and use) my old address from the iTools days, and Apple never required me to use nor do I expect them to require me to use They are all essentially aliases to the same account and all appear to work interchangeably when I just tried it. I log in with my mac.com address every day. Apple forces me to use the version of my account for that.
Everything else is dependent on other parties.
The only thing I can count on from cradle to grave (assuming I don't change it myself) is my birth name. Now it's been rolled back into whoever currently owns the block and is getting deprecated to IPv6. name taken for my family name, so all my siblings have addresses as well, not that they actually use them.) But in the long view, I'm including the possibility that the fundamentals of email itself change, much as phone numbers have become less important over the years.ĭo people really think we'll still be using email addresses as our primary identifier twenty years from now? (I have no idea - on the one hand that will be impressive legacy on the other hand a failure to come up with something better.) I remember back in the day when I had my own private, routed Class-C address allotment and thought I'd be set for life. I, and I assume many other Ars members, do likewise. So, as long as I'm willing to renew the domain name and barring a fundamental change to how email addressing works - that email address should be permanent. I've gotten my own domain name and use what ever mail service I desire.
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