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by _abox 2154 days ago
Big minus: Only works on Apple platforms :(

I use macOS and iOS all the time but I also use Windows, Android and Linux. So sadly most of Apple's services don't work for me. Even though I know they're really good. I really wish they'd expand their horizons a bit. Microsoft stuff works on pretty much everything so why not theirs?

I had no idea it was that good though, because of the above reason I never really used it.

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You could still access it from web. The interface isnt bad, but it’s web, so no native UI.
The web version has an incredibly obnoxious bug when it comes to using Enter.

On Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 hitting Enter once will not go to the next line. Hit Enter again and it will go down two lines.

Works fine in Chromium but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to use Firefox, especially when Apple pretends to champion privacy...

This drives me crazy too.
Sounds like it's a stone throw away from being packaged by someone as an Electron app :)
https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier

I used this to create an Electron app for my entire iCloud account. It's the only way I can stand to use it from my Linux machines due to the aforementioned Firefox bug. I don't mind using Chromium as an Electron app for this purpose though. Combined with Alltray I got a nice little Apple logo in my system tray that I leave open.