“I recently wrote about how 5 GB is insufficient for an iCloud account for many users, especially those who have multiple iOS devices,” Kirk McElhearn writes for Kirkville. “It would be a lot more logical for Apple to offer additional space when you buy a device from them.”
“Heck, I’ve got two Macs, an iPhone, iPad Air, iPad mini, and an iPod touch. I don’t use much of my iCloud storage, because I don’t back up a lot of data from the iOS devices,” McElhearn writes. “But still; what if I wanted to back them all up, and found that I hit the limit?”
“But there’s another problem with iCloud: it’s a black hole. When used as designed, you don’t see a file system,” McElhearn writes. “Each app that stores data on iCloud does so in its own space, and you can only access that data or those files from those specific apps. This is an annoyance. Say you’ve created a file with an app that stores your data on iCloud, and you want to view or open it in another app? On OS X, you can export the file, but on iOS you’re stuck.”
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