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They used to do that a long time ago. You would sit there with them as they transferred it off your old machine.
by jdsully 7y ago
They used to do that a long time ago. You would sit there with them as they transferred it off your old machine.
- xvector 7y ago> They used to do that a long time ago. Pretty happy they don't do that anymore, then. It sounds terrible for security.
- jdsully 7y agoAll they did was hook your old mac up to your new one with a cable and run the standard software. You sat with them and watched. There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.
- thirdsun 7y agoWhat you describe sounds like a huge waste of everybody's time. Furthermore data migration on mobile devices mostly happens via iCloud these days - there's really no need to do that in store. It's part of the onboarding process whenever you boot up a new iOS device.
- jdsully 7y agoA waste if you know what your doing. For my Grandpa who’d never figure it out on his own it was a real benefit.
- xvector 7y ago> There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk. Of course there's a security risk. The security model of both the Macs and the iPhones have significantly improved. The hardware security models make this a difficult engineering task - and a dangerous one.
- jdsully 7y agoThe modern day equivalent would be walking you through backing up to iCloud and restoring from iCloud. It’s not a security risk unless iCloud is one already.