On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Jochem Huhmann wrote: > What's better with iCloud is the much easier setup.
For me it's more about lock-in. I'm deeply invested in iPhoto, iTunes, iCal, Address Book, etc. As a Mac user with iOS devices, It just makes sense to use iCloud / Apple services to keep everything smooth and sync'd up. Switching to Google services or an Android phone would mean a huge hassle in data conversion and keeping stuff sync'd up. Everything from managing your diet of podcasts to wrangling family calendars depends on being in one camp or the other (e.g. if I got an Android phone how would I get my iTunes podcast subscriptions onto it? and so on) I don't even want to think about the chaos of tools and adapters and converters that would be necessary to bridge the gap. Seems to me that one can't really jump between these two worlds (Google and Apple) easily. Each has its own self-contained ecosystem of software, hardware, and services. To work smoothly on either platform means going all-in. ./s _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
