You don’t have much music, do you?
My CD collection is not unusually large for 30 years accumulation - and takes up some 46GB averaging ~128kbps bit rates. Most got correct album art & track list info from iTunes/Gracenote. I plan to re-rip them all to lossless, which will increase total size several times.
Thanks to Apple writing some large checks, I don’t have to upload dozens of gigabytes of audio, I just shell out $25/yr (meh) and it will match & sync most of that in minutes WITHOUT having to upload or occupy significant storage. So ... I buy a CD (as I prefer to), pop it in the PC, and wander off - without any further effort than insertion, the music appears on my iPad.
Thanks to Amazon and Google touting “upload your music!” _without_ writing some big checks to music publishers, that “match and sync” feature will not be available except for what you buy from them.
Maybe not life-changing (or maybe it is; iPad made a notable shift in mine), but it’s sure a far more advanced implementation of “cloud” technology than anyone else. You deride it as “a cloud drive is not a new idea” - you miss the point: it’s not implemented as a “drive”, because the paradigm of “drive” has been eliminated and everything just seems “right there”. This IS a big deal, even if you insist it isn’t. Apple got their $0.3T market cap precisely because of attention to such nuances.
How well Google will do remains to be seen. Android is fighting proliferation of versions and a dearth of paid apps. They might pull it together, or not. Apple has. Google may have an OS running on 34% of smartphones, but what percentage of that matters? (to wit: what percentage of Android users wouldn’t notice a difference if it was running anything else, or practically no serious OS at all?)
“(to wit: what percentage of Android users wouldn’t notice a difference if it was running anything else, or practically no serious OS at all?”
LOL, I’m POSITIVE that if a majority of phones were running iOS you wouldn’t be trying to downplay in the success and surge of Android.
Prediction: A year from now, Google’s market share will be higher than it is now and you’ll still be here touting the wonders of Apple wondering how the heck it is the appeal of Android continues to grow. I guess when you’re used to being told what you can do with your phone, you can’t possible fathom it.