In June, it will be two years since Apple offered users access, initially restricted, to the iCloud platform and promised that it would allow us to forget about computers. Although Apple has improved the iCloud system in two years, unfortunately it is currently a "nightmare" for developers. A good part of them they have complained to an American publication, arguing that iCloud does not interact correctly with the Core Data system, which is the intermediary between the iOS database and the applications from which that data is saved.
"iCloud hasn't worked out for us," wrote Daniel Pasco, CEO of development studio Black Pixel this past week. "We spent a considerable amount of time on this effort, but iCloud and Core Data syncing had issues that we simply could not resolve." Pocket lead developer Steve Streza piled on with a cutting tweet: "Remember that @blackpixel has many of the brightest people in Cocoa development. If they couldn't get iCloud working, who can?"
In practice, iCloud and Core Data have synchronization problems, and this means that sometimes the data that the applications try to send to iCloud do not reach there, and from here problems arise with the disappearance of important information. Many developers have given up implementing support for iCloud in their own applications, and this explains the lack of possibility to synchronize the data of many applications with the popular Apple system. Many users threaten that they could give up developing applications for iOS, or they could give up on iCloud altogether if the problem is not solved in iOS 7, and for now no one knows how much or if Apple has worked seriously on solving the problem.
