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reading a book, magazine, newspaper, other physical document, or online post
willhains:Williams Hains wrote about his experiences setting up his new iPhone 4S from an iCloud backup.I recently had to get my iPhone 4S replaced at the Genius Bar twice within the space of a week. That’s another story. But it meant that I had to go through the new iPhone set-up process a few times, something that normally I would only do once a year at most.He then writes about how he had to re-enter the account ID and password for all his apps and wonders why developers can’t just store and restore his credentials in iCloud. Could it be that app developers with ID-and-password cloud services just haven’t thought of this? Or is it that the APIs for iCloud are just too hard to use? Or perhaps, because this only happens to people once a year or less on average, developers don’t see it as a big problem?No. Not a good idea. The thought of an app like Instapaper, and Flipboard and Instagr.am etc all storing my Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr userid and password iCloud
Just like a PC.
I believe a person’s PC is pretty much defined by the apps they utilise beyond the ones that come on it. Two years after the iPad’s debut it’s in that same position. A 16GB WiFI iPad with standard apps is as much “PC” as many people need. A “power user” gets more storage, possibly adds cellular and the Camera Connection Kit, and goes beyond the default apps to add software such as Writing Kit, GarageBand, iWork, Dropbox, Photogene, iThoughtsHD, etc. to meet their personal needs and interests.
