this announcement is huge in multiple ways:
1) they just ate every other 3rd party "secure" backup services lunch just like they did to the Hi-Res music industry.
2) details of what they backup securely, besides photos (which is top priority for me): iCloud Drive: Includes Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents, PDFs, Safari downloads, or any other files manually or automatically saved to iCloud Drive.
3)BUT, perhaps the BIGGEST news here is that Apple is making a backup statement to what they've been saying for years and what they've recently gotten negative attention on: They don't want your data. They're not Goodle/FB/Amazon. They're giving you 2TB+ of space and you can encrypt it to the point that you'll lose your data and they don't care -- they don't want to mine your data, they don't want to know what you store on there, the don't care to scan your pictures with AI 20 different ways, they don't want to monetize it, etc, etc., just pay them money for their service and transactionally they give you only thing that you want in return -- reliable, secure, private service.
seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.
>>>seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.
Lol I would never advocate for any company I engage with to use apple products. Why? Because they suck.iphoto and iCloud are pieces of trash. Most basic thing like, delete local but keep cloud copy seems to be missing. Can't keep a iPhone synced and do this with iCloud. Lulz worthy sitcho.
Also can't even copy files off device easily. Can't put custom apps on devices easily. The company actively kicks back against things like, freedom of information, following standards, reducing e-waste.
You know some of us make decisions around the companies we support on greater levels than just feature a or b is present in device. Apple are a predatory company that in no way promote a software or hardware ecosystem that is ethical imho and they don't promote one I want to participate in.
I wouldn't touch their shit with a barge pole and ontop of this due to being IT everytime I'm forced to I'm mostly confused by wtf folks think is so great. I legit find the kids toy ux difficult to work with, borderline impossible.
I also like blowing clients away with simple tasks like....copying photos to a usb...browsing files on my phone on a pc. You know the basic stuff like they used to do when they were younger but apple cucked it along the way for zero reason lol.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33898890.
> Can't put custom apps on devices easily.
You will, from May, thanks to the EU Digital Markets act.
> [...] simple tasks like....copying photos to a usb...browsing files on my phone on a pc.
You can do this with ifuse: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse