[jaegerpicker]

It's generally helpful if you don't trot out 2-3 year old claims. Both maps and Safari have had massive changes recently and both are if not on par with other companies it's really close. Apple has had issues with OS X reliability and music can be truly bad at times and iCloud (especially sync) is almost embarrassing. I'm a huge Apple fan and an iOS developer but they aren't without fault but if you are going to call them out make it current.

[k-mcgrady]

Curious about your take on iCloud sync. Is that from a developer perspective (I remember the API initially sucked) or user perspective? I've never implemented iCloud sync in an app but at least with Apple's apps it works perfectly for me. I moved thousands of notes from Evernote to Notes which I use daily, I use calendars/contacts, I use Reading List, the credit card and password sync for Safari works really well. In the past there were definitely problems but I haven't come across any in quite a long time.

[jaegerpicker]

Mostly from a developer side but a little from a user stand point. Parts of iCloud are pretty great, especially cloudkit, but sync itself is really hard to manage and have it work correctly. I've found it fairly common to have a decent amount the production support issues related to iCloud. That being said it's getting better IMO and I think once iOS 10 and Sierra are the default OS's it will be less of an issue.

Common problems include items not syncing, syncing out of time order, and conflict resolution causing synced data to appear lost. Most devs that are really serious about sync tend to roll their own after experiencing enough issues to make iCloud not worth the effort.

This is entirely based on my experience and may not be universally true but I've heard enough devs repeat my own complaints to feel like it's not completely out for left field.