As a person who bought into every last mobile service that Apple has put out since iDisk. I have never failed to be disappointed.<p>I moved from NetBSD to Mac in the early 2000s because things at the workstation layer worked roughly as well, with less ceremony. Now, I find that Google is slowly eroding my ties to the Mac platform, and have several family members using chromebooks primarily on the strength of their services.<p>I sometimes wonder about the tradeoffs I've made in moving to a life on Google. I basically have no expectation of privacy anymore. But then I think of what a pain it was to manage my own mutt mail client, and think that maybe I'm still better off today.<p>I just can't see myself going back to Apple's fat-client view of the world, and I can't see Apple catching up to Google on service quality.