This is a good post and I wish all the best to the author that someone from Apple can help resolve this. I will personally never use iCloud ever again because of this.
After Virtue was one of my favorite books, and it helped me get started learning about the history of ideas. I knew he was getting older, but I'm saddened to see him pass. In college, I had hoped that I could meet him one day. Rest in peace.
Sure, it's a compelling piece of science fiction. Unfortunately we have no way of distinguishing between a verbal play-performance and a genuinely living texter with a conscious interior life.