Whenever I try to get iCloud actually working [1] I kind of wish Apple was actually interested in owning my data ;-) Rants apart, this fact: > Apple makes mon

Whenever I try to get iCloud actually working [1] I kind of wish Apple was actually interested in owning my data ;-) Rants apart, this fact: > Apple makes money selling you hardware. Google makes money selling you to advertisers. has a direct consequence: cloud services made by Apple are generally inferior compared to those made by Google[2]. Now of course if you value privacy over everything you might prefer to save your data locally rather than in the cloud, but I have too many devices lost or broken to go that way. [1] https://support.apple.com/kb/index?q=backup+could+not+be+completed&src=globalnav_support&type=organic&page=search&locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/index?q=backup+could+not+be+com... [2] http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10900612/walt-mossberg-apple-iphone-ios-mac-osx-app-problems http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10900612/walt-mossberg-appl...