With the transition of MobileME into iCloud, the one big thing I will miss is the iDisk. It was pretty sweet to have 20 GB of storage handy that was shared between a couple systems, as long as they had Internet connectivity. The primary function I had for mine was keeping KMAG’s contents consistent between my two QTSS servers (home and work). Not the music, it was for the playlists and spreadsheets I used to analyze (patterns, what was next, so on). I also stored some D&D jazz there: plots, character sheets, proposals, etc.
When Apple flips the switch next Summer to turn it off, iCloud will have something similar except it will be application specific. I’m sure the heavy hitters are going to be present: MS Office, Adobe’s stuff. Yet it’s nice to have access via the Finder to make sure what you’re looking for is present. I cleared it out today to get into the habit of no longer depending upon it.
Dropbox will get me through the interim and the iDisk’s larger features (Web publishing namely) ending never bothered me. As you can see, I have site place to cover all the other stuff it did.
As the end draws near, I’m feeling the “sadness”. As nothing will be what idisk was. Scrambling for a replacement. There are tons of clouds sharing everywhere yet, it is not the same. I’m like a clouds junkie, trying this and doing that. It is like being with this person for a while now, sharing address, emails, photos, files and even finding my iPhone. And knowing where things are exactly. Now, it’s like a part of it has left and I have to split it with someone else and there’s always something to pick on with the substitute, always comparing with the old. “Drop box is ok but I don’t like the interface, sugar sync, is ok but the linking is.. hmm.. “. It’s better off with everything together. Cant’ we just get along and be like how it was?