What is the point of iCloud

Please don't get me wrong I love my iMac, iPhone, iPad but am confused by iCloud. I tried syncing/backing up to it and it quickly ran out of space and asked me to pay for more room, in itunes the option seems to be back up to computer or to icloud - I want all my data 'backed up' and 'synced' between all my devices and computer so I thought I'd just 'sync' my calendar but all my apps were going to icloud ... I've got dozens, it will be full just with a few of the apps. Sorry I'm rambling now but I see, from somewhere, I have a photostream that I cannot 'manage' ... all in all I'm confused ... any advice welcome thanks Roger

Best I can say is hold tight. This is a new start, and there are going to be a few bumps. Give Apple a little time to see how the load with all the new users holds, then you will see fixes.
I am keeping my backups on my laptop, but have mail, calender and all the other stuff on iCloud.
I agree with the space issue, not sure how only 5 gigs will work, but I can see an upgrade of more space coming in a year or so. Than again $40 for 25 gigs a year is not to bad.
If you were had a me.com account before iCloud, you have 25 free gigs.
My hope is a better photo option. I would like to have a Flickr sort of photo posting/sharing.

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  • What's the point of iCloud

    Unless I misunderstood, I have to pay to get all my music to be pushed to all my devices (iTunes Match) and I have to buy iWork for my iPhone (even though I already have it on my Mac) in order to get those documents pushed to the cloud. (It makes more sense to stick with iWork beta!)
    I feel like Apple is nickling and diming its loyal customers.
    So, essentially, iCloud is useless! I thought it would be a great way to free up space on my hard drive; I could just store my documents and music in the cloud.
    My question is: what is the point of iCloud? Honestly, what does it do? It just pushes stuff between your devices? I genuinely don't understand the point of it.

    capaho wrote:
    Julian Wright wrote:
    Here we go... Yet another 'loyal' Apple customer who seems to think that because they've bought one Apple product, Apple should forever let them have new products and services for free.
    The real problem here is that Apple has no long-term commitment to support anything it makes.  It wasn't that long ago that MobileMe (which was not free) came into existence and now it is already being dumped in favor of iCloud, which lacks the iDisk, remote access to Time Capsules and personal websites.  It's a step backwards and a disservice to those of us who were using some or all of those MobileMe features. 
    Apple's product cycles, both hardware and software, are too short to be of use to anyone but those who like to play.  Forget about trying to run a business from Apple products these days.
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    In my own small home network we 7 Macs all being synced through MobileMe. Only two of these Macs can run Lion and doing so would mean no longer being able to use applications that our clients still use so it would mean loss of these clients. Not to mention the cost of replacing at least 5 of or Macs.
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    With MobileMe one could buy a newer Mac running Lion and it would still be able to sync with older Macs but now it is all or nothing.
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  • What is the point of icloud backup, when you have to plug your iphone into itunes to restore it anyway?

    ok im confused now.. What is the point of backing up and restoring your iphone with icloud, when to restore your iphone you have to plug it into itunes anyway? you might as well just restore it from there then shouldnt you?

    when to restore your iphone you have to plug it into itunes anyway?
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  • What is the point of iCloud backup?

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    when to restore your iphone you have to plug it into itunes anyway?
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  • HT1349 What is the point of iCloud online storage?

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    It's a pain uploading and downloading from iworks.com
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    i have recently purchased the highest storage but was unable to backup my phone via icloud, the button on my iphone to backup on icloud is grey out, anyone knows how to resolve the problem?  What's the point of purchasing the biggest storage?

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