&gt; My take on this is not that Apple has gotten worse, but that they have actually gotten better at cloud services.<p>Which isn&#x27;t saying much, since they&#x27;re still terrible. Their cloud-synced Notes.app is almost unusable; every time I add a note on the phone there&#x27;s maybe a one-in-three chance it&#x27;ll sync to the desktop immediately, a one-in-three chance it&#x27;ll sync the next day, and a one-in-three chance it&#x27;ll appear three days later or more. If Apple has in fact gotten better at cloud services, it&#x27;s only because they were so abysmal before that there was nowhere to go but up.