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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
I'm curious what kind of ideas are being talked about with this awesome new state saving feature of icloud. Like having my bookmarks and settings saved in Chrome and Tweetdeck is awesome and all, but I don't think I'd need that for, say, Word or Photoshop... Or thinking of apps I use on my phone and ipad... nothing comes to mind that would really be that amazing. But I'm not the most creative person, so I'd like to hear some ideas... Otherwise, it sounds a lot like typical apple propaganda to me... This AMAZING new feature that will change the world.. but ends up being basically another name for something that already exists.
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If state saving isn't significant, then why did both Android and iOS spend a
great deal of time and effort incorporating this into their smartphone OS? It's heavily integrated into the multitasking abilities of both. In fact, you can't even code for Android or iOS without taking into account the idea of state saving.
Client server computing has been around in various forms for a long time now. It's also faded in and out of popularity as technology has changed. The idea of a "persistent client" has been thrown around forever, but has never been achieved. For example, cookies are actually an attempt to create the persistent client by storing information about what you were doing when you visit a website to preserve your "state" for the next visit.
Chrome, Firefox and others have done this but on an application level only. And they have the resources to do it. The majority of developers are not able to implement this simply because of the cost and complexity to do so. Now Apple has provided the framework which lets the small developer surpass even Google and Firefox with a better implementation of a persistent client via iCloud. Developers I've talked to are ecstatic at having such a powerful feature made so easily accessible. And free to boot.