My take on this is not that Apple has gotten worse, but that they have actually gotten <i>better</i> at cloud services.  Whereas no one actually used MobileMe or iDisk, their new generation of cloud services is actually being used.  It&#x27;s true that they&#x27;re losing ground because Google has defined a bar for cloud services that they can&#x27;t reach, but they are trying and not entirely failing at it.<p>The secondary aspect is the surface area of what they are dealing with.  This is a far cry from the old Mac OS days where they were really a PC company.  Now they have to make OS X, iOS (for both phones&#x2F;tablets), and tvOS all work together seamlessly.  If quality was exactly the same, they would have far more bugs just based on the cartesian complexity of possible interactions.<p>I hope they can sort it out because I&#x27;m feeling the pain just like everyone else, but I don&#x27;t see any better alternatives at the moment.