Why doesn't iCloud just work?

[James Bott]

Apple's Broken Promise: why doesn't iCloud just work?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148628/why-doesnt-icloud-just-work

This is a good discussion about the difficulty of doing distributed computing using databases via mobile where you have connection issues to resolve. Syncing databases is way more complicated than users imagine.