| I already aknowledged Amazon has a fine IaaS in AWS, but that's not really what we were talking about. The cloud we were talking about is the SaaS part. Apple doesn't do IaaS anyway (at all), so it makes no sense to compare offerings in this area with Apple's. For the SaaS that Apple does, it has huge successes with iCloud and iTMS and the App Store. We might find them klunky or whatever (compared to what? Google Play? Kindle's sync?), but if it was a third party company called iTunes that had the #1 music store in the U.S, it would be hailed as a huge success in itself. And for Apple it's just a byproduct, and coming from a company with no roots in the music business at all when it started it. >a certainly deficient experience with devices owned by others with whom you may want to share an experience, Apple will always be second fiddle. At least Apple has the "seamlessly between Apple devices" right. There are platforms that even between devices of that one platform the sharing experience is subpar. But, as someone who works with Windows and Linux too, and has an iPhone and a cheap Android phone, I really don't see any platform that does this cross-platform sharing thing any better ("first fiddle"). How's sharing from Android to iOS or Windows Phone or PC any better? |