Why you should care about CloudKit<article>
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If you’ve lived through the last couple iterations of OS X and iOS, you’ve probably had the opportunity to develop a special love/hate relationship with iCloud. Apple’s cloud service suite is made up of many different parts and systems, and while it’s great when it works, it also has a history of being prone to hard-to-diagnose outages and, for developers, obscure error messages.</p><p>
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has worked hard over the last couple years to make iCloud more stable and reliable, and it has largely succeeded, to the point where the grumblings about it have, at least anecdotally, subsided considerably since its introduction.</p><p>
Despite these improvements, however, iCloud’s file storage offerings have always lacked a number of features that made it less compelling than, say, Dropbox for the needs of many modern apps. For example, while iCloud is mostly free and tightly integrated with both iOS and OS X, it’s limited to sharing information between multiple devices that belong to the same user—pretty restrictive in a world where services supporting multiple users (often on a massive scale) are the focus of some of the most successful apps.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2455127/why-you-should-care-about-cloudkit.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Why you should care about CloudKit
