[Brajeshwar]

It is believed that Apple hasn’t gotten Cloud and Social right yet. Remember they tried multiple times with Music Sharing, Find My your friends, Share directly to Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Like the author, I have Dropbox besides iCloud. However, iCloud is an Apple thing — share/backup/store settings, preferences, temporary edits/work, and share with families. If something is essential, even for Pages, Numbers, etc., I store the files in the local version synced to the cloud (Dropbox for personal/family and Google for work).

I haven’t faced the problems people keep mentioning on the Internet, so I stay cautious enough. However, it has been my pattern for a while — Own your content and use everything else as tools[1].

I manually back up Photos every month. I need to find a simple way to automate backing up the photos, contacts, etc., and keep a copy in Open formats.

iCloud is convenient and works as long as we stick to Apple’s prescribed lane. However, try to have a way to walk out if the need arises.

1. https://notes.oinam.com/digital/

[sneak]

“it is believed”? APNS is one of the most reliable services on the planet, serving about a billion people 24/7/365 for many years.

The whole “Apple is bad at cloud” is a meme from a decade ago. Apple is great at the bits of cloud computing that make Apple money.

[Brajeshwar]

Yes, absolutely. This is why I use it as a critical component of my life -- personal, work, etc. but with the idea that, “I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”

I just happen to have backups to walk out and not become part of a statistics or, worse, a meme influencer.