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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6193843" data-attributes="member: 31216">You explained the iCloud better than anything I've seen from Apple. Thanks. The handwavey explanations I had read suggested the cloud was somehow maintained throughout the devices in my home and elsewhere as the need may arise. I didn't like the idea of my data hanging around some nebulous web of systems.Buts it's not that I &quot;mistrust&quot; something I don't understand; I don't trust something I don't understand. That is, I don't automatically assign a negative to something I don't understand, but I don't automatically assign a postive to it.All this 21st century tech is driving me crazy. I'm not a technophile; I don't keep up with the latest tech, and computers and phones and such have outdistanced my interest/ability to keep up with them. But I'm the go-to guy for everyone and everything in my home. We have about a dozen devices connected to the Internet in our home, plus other devices at my mother's and mother's-in-law home. I have to install, hook up, maintain, and fix anything and everything electronic because no one else can or will bother to learn anything.I mean, really, a new TV? I hook it up, I set it up, I figure out the remote controls, and then I friggin' have to teach everyone how to use the controls. And then if something doesn't work, I have to figure out the problem and fix it. Again, I am not a techie. I'm just the poor schlub in the house who bothers to pick up the remote, look at the buttons, and go through them to figure out what everything does. (And I'm the only one who actually remembers what I learned about it.)You can probably imagine what a nightmare, &quot;My [random electronic device] is broken,&quot; becomes for me. So any extra set back or problem like I've experienced upgrading something that is currently working just fine makes my head asplode.Bullgrit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 6193843, member: 31216"] You explained the iCloud better than anything I've seen from Apple. Thanks. The handwavey explanations I had read suggested the cloud was somehow maintained throughout the devices in my home and elsewhere as the need may arise. I didn't like the idea of my data hanging around some nebulous web of systems. Buts it's not that I "mistrust" something I don't understand; I don't trust something I don't understand. That is, I don't automatically assign a negative to something I don't understand, but I don't automatically assign a postive to it. All this 21st century tech is driving me crazy. I'm not a technophile; I don't keep up with the latest tech, and computers and phones and such have outdistanced my interest/ability to keep up with them. But I'm the go-to guy for everyone and everything in my home. We have about a dozen devices connected to the Internet in our home, plus other devices at my mother's and mother's-in-law home. I have to install, hook up, maintain, and fix anything and everything electronic because no one else can or will bother to learn anything. I mean, really, a new TV? I hook it up, I set it up, I figure out the remote controls, and then I friggin' have to teach everyone how to use the controls. And then if something doesn't work, I have to figure out the problem and fix it. Again, I am not a techie. I'm just the poor schlub in the house who bothers to pick up the remote, look at the buttons, and go through them to figure out what everything does. (And I'm the only one who actually remembers what I learned about it.) You can probably imagine what a nightmare, "My [random electronic device] is broken," becomes for me. So any extra set back or problem like I've experienced upgrading something that is currently working just fine makes my head asplode. Bullgrit [/QUOTE]

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