There's a mobile ecosystem battle raging, with Apple and Google
racing to build end-to-end mobile monopolies. According to
VisionMobile, "The triumph of iOS and Android is a testament to
the superiority of ecosystems economics over legacy business
models." Sadly, this triumph has a casualty, and that casualty
is you.  It all worked great when Apple was a hardware company
that dabbled in software, and when Google focused on cloud
services but didn't veer into hardware. Now that these companies
are encroaching on each others' turf, some essential things are
getting lost in translation.  Like sync.  Apple Sinks On Sync
We live in an increasingly mobile world, which requires
correspondingly tight synchronization between these devices.
Sadly, even when buying into one vendor's end-to-end stack
(hardware, software, cloud), sync is not guaranteed. At least,
not with Apple.  I've written before about Apple's hit-or-
mostly-miss approach to cloud services. Perhaps once a year I
take up the topic, and each year the sto