Microsoft
MicrosoftNow that you have a crappy solution, can you create a good one? Maybe storing the data in a Microsoft server that all iPhones can access. I don't use iCloud (Cloud == A Icy, hard to reach location that is almost always hard to get to and from, that can blow away at any time, and that is totally not under your control, and often you have to pay to get to and from it. No one would ever store anything in a cloud. So you would never want to store security information there, and if you enable iCloud on your iPhone, then Apple starts sucking up your iPhone's data and storing it up there... I had it start copying photos up to it when I first setup a phone and the dang thing enabled it... It is a **bleep** to keep it off, and so many worthless applications want to use it as a free place to dump their data - that won't go away... Until it does. Yes, I've had a company that was storing my data in their cloud stop the service as they realized it wasn't making them money, so you have 30 days (2 when I actually saw the message) to pull all your data back, figure some other way to deal with the absence of the service/data and try to reengineer your setup to be able to continue to function... No thanks, it was a close call for me last time, I stopped using Clouds after that...). (And I'm a software Architect, so yes, I know how they work, their advantages and disadvantages... And I have NO interest in sending a pile of personal data to Microsoft, Apple, or google.. So, yeah, I lock down my Microsoft Windows machines as best I can to keep them from phoning home, and they still do - one reason I moved as much as possible to iOS, Microsoft isn't a trusted partner for me anymore...
