![]() See Why Things Can Get Really Complicated, Really Quickly? If you drop your phone in the toilet, it’s OK because the data’s home is on a remote server (a cloud), not on your waterlogged phone. If you delete the contact from your phone, it deletes it from the server, and since every device is connected to that same server, the contact is deleted on all your devices. The new way (using the cloud): When you save a contact on your iPhone or iPad, the contact is saved on a remote server like iCloud, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, Exchange, etc., and yes, every one of these is a cloud server! Using the cloud, the contact’s home is on the remote server, not on your device. But, if you drop your device in the toilet (like I did once), all of your contacts go down the tubes. If you delete the contact from your phone, it doesn’t affect the data on your other devices. Using the old way, the contact’s home is on your device. If you wanted to transfer contacts back and forth between your phone and your computer, you had to plug in the USB cable and use iTunes to sync the data. The old way was simple: When you saved a contact on your phone, it was saved in memory on that device.
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