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Woah there buddy. — Apple makes it extremely easy for anyone to start backing up their computer in a way that covers an array of scenarios from accidental or m

Woah there buddy. — Apple makes it extremely easy for anyone to start backing up their computer in a way that covers an array of scenarios from accidental or malicious deletions to full-on disaster recovery. — It has everything to do with MacOS because the creation of backups happens within a MacOS environment and the restoring of backups happens within a MacOS environment. The only "firmware" aspect is the (relatively) simple boot-time keyboard triggers. — Apple's solution to damaged devices is having a comprehensive backup strategy. If your plan is to recover data from a damaged device, you've failed before you begin. Apple doesn't offer first-party data recovery services, but there are plenty of third party services to handle disaster recovery situations. To the extent that they make it difficult for you to recover data from a damaged device, it's because they do robust on-disk encryption. — Yes, any vendor "could" offer the same thing. That's exactly the point. They could. Most don't. That's the point.

microcolonel 8y ago
> If your plan is to recover data from a damaged device, you've failed before you begin. Apple says this is the case, but it's not actually the case. Repairing a device is how you recover data from it. I know it's preferable that people make an effort to protect their data, but in the real world, approximately zero people back up anything.
- sjwright 8y ago
  What I mean is that you've failed in principle. You shouldn't ever risk being in a position where access to your data may become contingent upon the skills of a repairer wielding a soldering iron. If maintaining comprehensive backups isn't boneheadedly simple and robust, your vendor is selling junk. But as a practical matter I don't disagree. If you failed to maintain comprehensive backups (or you have suffered a rare double-disaster) then it's great that these hardware repair experts exist.

microcolonel 8y ago

> If your plan is to recover data from a damaged device, you've failed before you begin. Apple says this is the case, but it's not actually the case. Repairing a device is how you recover data from it. I know it's preferable that people make an effort to protect their data, but in the real world, approximately zero people back up anything.

sjwright 8y ago
What I mean is that you've failed in principle. You shouldn't ever risk being in a position where access to your data may become contingent upon the skills of a repairer wielding a soldering iron. If maintaining comprehensive backups isn't boneheadedly simple and robust, your vendor is selling junk. But as a practical matter I don't disagree. If you failed to maintain comprehensive backups (or you have suffered a rare double-disaster) then it's great that these hardware repair experts exist.