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> 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
by 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 agoWhat 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.