Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models

On 7 Mar 2024 at 23:04:03 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 7 Mar 2024 at 21:32:54 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 7 Mar 2024 at 16:42:05 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

 I believe iCloud can and does store material without necessarily
sending it to other Apple devices.

 That's not its primary purpose though. As exampled, photos,
contacts, reminders, calendars, iCloud Drive documents, app
settings, and so on are all synchronized between all of your
devices. Add one and it appears on all of your devices. Remove one
from one device, and it gets removed from iCloud and your other
devices.

 I totally accept that!
 However, I can store any other item I wish.

 Yes, but the default behavior is if you delete it, it gets deleted
from your other devices.

 Perhaps you are not aware of changes made to iCloud.
 If you put Documents into iCloud, they are not added to iPhone and/or
iPad.
 See:-  https://i.ibb.co/ZfPsSjg/Screenshot-2024-03-07-at-22-19-10.png

 No, that's incorrect. iCloud Drive is not a generic cloud file storage
service. Things you add to iCloud Drive are made available to all of the
Apple devices that are logged in with the same Apple ID.

"Made available to" ......... I accept that. But not installed upon.

Apple's webpage about it:
 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/109344>
 Go ahead and try it for yourself. 😉

I have! :-)
I can ALSO access my Apple iCloud from my Windows laptop!