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As for the immediacy and convenience, I find it invaluable, constantly moving between two locations and regularly travelling to other random locations with or without a mobile internet connection, I can pick up exactly where I was no matter which computer I am using, EVEN if it's off line. (Provided it had the opportunity to sync before it went off line of course.)
To me this had been the missing piece of the jigsaw of computing. My first impression of the cloud was dismissive, I saw no need to have identical bookmarks on all my devices, nor any other enforced synchronisation.
It doesn't work like that. With bookmarks it has forced me to organise them better so they work as well on my laptop 13" screen as on my 24" home screen. But for documents you can choose if you want to make them available to the other devices via iCloud or not. Some I share, some I don't, easy.
The data exists on the client computer or iDevice it was created on, in the iCloud, if that option was chosen when the document was first saved and it exists on any other computer or iDevice which is signed into that account.
I am finding working with broadly one set of data across several computers and locations is a dream.
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Robert.