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[QUOTE="vela, post: 6848483, member: 221963"] I'm not sure what you mean by this, but it doesn't sound right. iCloud storage is used for iCloud mail and iOS device backups, and optionally, messages, your photo and video library, and documents and desktop folders. Specific applications can use the storage to keep data to be shared across devices as well. I use a Mac and find iCloud storage incredibly useful. Most of my documents and other files are in the cloud, so I can sit down with my laptop or at my desktop to work on stuff without the hassle of manually transferring data over or keeping track of various versions on that end up on different systems. When I'm setting up a new system, I don't have to restore from backup or transfer tons of data from the old system to the new. All I have to do is enable syncing, and most of setting up other than installing applications is done. As for sharing documents, you can do the same with other syncing services, like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. Because I use Macs, iCloud beats the other services out because of the tighter integration with the OS and applications. If I used only one computer, I'd probably find it much less useful. I used to use Dropbox until iCloud Drive got good enough. I use Google Drive with my work account. Instead of having students turn in work done on paper, I just share Google docs with them and they do the work in it. [/QUOTE]
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