David Sparks at MacSparky on iCloud Drive:

For a few weeks, it just didn’t work for me. Sometimes I could get one device to sync with the other temporarily but then a few hours later it would stop. I spent way too much time trying to troubleshoot it and ultimately concluded the problem was probably something server-based or software-based and entirely out of my control. I was like a tribesmen trying to forestall a solar eclipse by looking at chicken bones. I knew at some level that all of my attempts to sort things out was pointless yet I couldn’t stop myself because I needed these documents to synchronize for my work.

I haven’t experienced any of the problems that David describes in this post, but I have an extreme respect for David and his technical abilities. The fact that a power user like David has had problems with iCloud Drive (it just works…) says a lot of what other people out there might be experiencing.

iCloud Drive was not designed for geeks like us, and for that simple reason it should just work. It is inconceivable that documents don’t sync. Users like my mother simply cannot understand why the Numbers spreadsheet she’s looking at on her iPad doesn’t show the latest rows she’s added on her Mac.

For these users Apple needs to take action and fast. These are the users that inevitably, and with a genuine sense of disappointment, will tell you that things just don’t work as they used to.