16. Web Service Integration
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
In Chapter 14, “iCloud,” and Chapter 15, “Taming iCloud,” Grocery Dude’s Core Data stack was integrated with iCloud. A key limitation of iCloud, however, is that its data is constrained to one iCloud account. Because iCloud accounts are deeply intertwined with many aspects of user devices, it is not practical or recommended to share iCloud accounts. This means that iCloud cannot be used to collaborate. For example, assume a husband and wife wanted to contribute to the same shopping list. This isn’t currently possible with iCloud. The bottom line is that alternative ...
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