'Sacrifice another goat!: iCloud is Apple's biggest failure before Google • The Register

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"Jason Maynard, Software and Internet analyst for Wells Fargo Securities, points out: "Evernote, Dropbox, etc. all make great software that lives above a single device. [I'd] much rather use that than MobileMe." It would seem that these companies that are born on the web understand the concept of cloud much better than Apple, where cloud feels like a bolt-on strategy to help users stitch together their various Apple products.
That would be something, but the promise butts up against a harsh reality: Apple's cloud services don't work. Or, at least, not well enough to be trusted."

'Sacrifice another goat!: iCloud is Apple's biggest failure before Google • The Register