Here is a terrible flaw in these multi-vendor, heterogeneous networked environments.
You can have a filesystem with intuitive semantics, really flexible and great access control, resilient and dependable, fast and efficient, but in order to share this filesystem across the network, with other OSes by different vendors, the lowest common denominator is observed. And so all those features are stripped away, because only the basics are supported when the OS vendors are competing with each other and there are different machines with different filesystem drivers, different file managers, and apps with different libraries and frameworks for accessing files. There is no way to maintain consistency, even with standards-based formats and protocols, when so many disparate vendors and developers are involved.
Wait, what's that you say? iCloud is maintained by a single vendor? You are telling me that Apple has control of every iCloud client and server?
You can have a filesystem with intuitive semantics, really flexible and great access control, resilient and dependable, fast and efficient, but in order to share this filesystem across the network, with other OSes by different vendors, the lowest common denominator is observed. And so all those features are stripped away, because only the basics are supported when the OS vendors are competing with each other and there are different machines with different filesystem drivers, different file managers, and apps with different libraries and frameworks for accessing files. There is no way to maintain consistency, even with standards-based formats and protocols, when so many disparate vendors and developers are involved.
Wait, what's that you say? iCloud is maintained by a single vendor? You are telling me that Apple has control of every iCloud client and server?
Hmm, bad bit of luck there.