Is this guy right?

Post #435,852 by drook 8/21/20 10:56:32 AM 8/21/20 10:56:32 AM Reply	Is this guy right? https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17013741&cid=60424113 The fatal flaw that makes iCloud nearly useless as a backup solution is that it does not keep prior backups. As soon as you make a new backup, your old one is gone. And your phone is backing itself up to iCloud daily, in a manner that is outside the user's control. What this means is that as soon as something goes wrong, you have to IMMEDIATELY stop everything you're doing and wipe your device and restore the whole device from the last backup, or your data is GONE. Much more detail at the link. -- Drew
Post #435,884 by Ashton 8/21/20 10:07:08 PM 8/21/20 10:07:08 PM Reply	unHoly S(ch)it.. (I drop in here, beyond my Pay-grade because so much of this stuff seems to be more about an ensuing Sociology FUBAR) than re the insanely-great er, Craft gone awry.. Wouldn't a eraser-bomb of this MTonnage lead immediately to n-Legal demands, with many-$000s per each? /possibly even a Class Action? In this case: what Timing! amidst all the other Disaster clusterfucks. (And the linked IOS material gives a warm/fuzzy feeling that I'm off that particular railroad to The Cassandra Crossing).. at least for now. Jeez.. maybe it Is Armageddon out there. (May I steal The infrastructure guys aren't talking to the usability guys, in another venue?) or even just Politics. ;^>
Post #435,885 by drook 8/21/20 10:22:00 PM 8/21/20 10:22:00 PM Reply	It's not stealing if you ask And what if I say "No"? -- Drew
Post #435,888 by Ashton 8/22/20 1:45:42 AM 8/22/20 1:45:43 AM Reply	..then no more cokes for You.
Post #435,890 by pwhysall 8/22/20 4:09:05 AM 8/22/20 4:09:05 AM Reply	Re: Is this guy right? Oh, man. He was doing so well. I'm assuming he's correct on the iCloud stuff, mainly because I have no reason to think otherwise, and then he drops this neckbeard-bomb: Either way, Apple completely screwed up the backup story on iOS to the point that no non-jailbroken iOS device can ever POSSIBLY be considered a serious tool for anything other than media consumption. It is absolutely NOT suitable for professional use as a content creation tool, because the backup story is a complete joke. So although I may mock Adobe for their poor quality control, I have to really wonder why anyone would trust an iOS device as their only copy of anything. That'll be page one news to the millions of people who do professional content creation on iOS devices all day, every day.
Post #435,893 by drook 8/22/20 9:55:48 AM 8/22/20 9:55:48 AM Reply	Lots of people do lots of things they shouldn't, doesn't make it a good idea If, in general, you agree that a "professional" does backups, why does iOS get a pass? Is the answer is that no one does backups, so we can't really call that a necessary party of the definition? -- Drew
Post #435,908 by pwhysall 8/23/20 3:31:20 AM 8/23/20 3:31:20 AM Reply	I found amusing... ...the notion that some neckbeard on Slashdot (among the neckbeardiest of neckbeard sites) feels qualified to prognosticate on what is and is not a suitable platform for content creation, in spite of the evidence. iOS backup is and always has been for whole-device recovery, full stop; there's no way, for example, to just recover your files, or just your apps, or just your settings. iCloud has never been sold as a backup solution at all, at least as far as I'm aware. It's no different to OneDrive or Google Drive or DropBox or whatever. Well, it's different in that it has a much more annoying Windows client than the other options :D I think most people don't do backups, over and above having a copy of their shee on one of the services above. Forex, I use OneDrive, but that's just synced cloud storage, not a backup system. I used to use CrashPlan for a proper online backup, but CP decided to fuck all their personal users a couple or three years ago. I think most professionals - i.e. people whose living depends on it - do do backups, and they don't depend on iOS device backups for it.

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