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by genxy 29 days ago
iCloud is just rebadged GCS.
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bhouston 29 days ago
GCS and AWS are not competitors with iCloud, DropBox, Box, Drive, OneDrive since they are just raw APIs and storage and not a user facing product.

It is similar to saying that most websites are just cloud-hosted SQL rebranded.

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dzonga 29 days ago
iCloud actually runs on FoundationDB - probably one of most underrated DB engines out there.

you can build object storage on FoundationDB + other awesome bespoke stuff.

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genxy 29 days ago
It might use FoundationDB, but it is certainly storing those bytes on GCS.
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