Obviously I am referring to the cost of Apple hardware, which - as any student of basic economics will understand - subsidises the cost of 'free' services such as iCloud.

I'm happy to fork out the £3k-£4k I've spent on Apple products in the last 18 months, on the presumption that they are more reliable than Windows products and - in that sense - provide better time economy. That's usually the case.

Thanks for informing us that your service works great; and for giving Tazzie some fisher-price advice. Perhaps we should check he turned it on too?

Fortunately, my iCloud seems to be working again. Turning it on and off a couple of times on my devices and restarting seems to have triggered a sync.. But I stand by my assertion that you should be able to log in and access/edit the central, 'authoritative' data, then force it onto devices.