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Apple's failure/refusal to update the Time Capsule after 2013 (2013!) is a weird stain on their carefully curated ecosystem. First they come out with Time Mach
by BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
Apple's failure/refusal to update the Time Capsule after 2013 (2013!) is a weird stain on their carefully curated ecosystem.
First they come out with Time Machine backups in late 2007, which is the most amazing file backup system ever made in terms of UI/X, come out with a tailored hardware platform for capturing those backups across all of your macs on a network, and then...not a goddamn thing except for breaking backups periodically. No reliability improvements. No compatibility improvements. Time Machine is still fucking weird and finicky and unreliable and randomly breaks after system updates, and it's still built into the OS, and Apple hasn't released a new first party product for using it with in ages, and it's still the most beautiful backup system ever made sitting there just taunting you.
So people are left to set up their own NAS which fails 9 times out of 10, making the entire setup process annoying as hell: "Try this configuration tweak." "Nope, still doesn't work." "Does it say why?" "No." "Ok, try this one."
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoThey replaced it with iCloud. I completely agree that a local NAS is different from and superior to an iCloud backup, but it's been replaced in their ecosystem.
- eric__cartman 5y agoApple probably realized that selling monthly, renewable subscriptions to "the cloud" allows them to squeeze more money out of their users than a one time sale of a NAS appliance.
- glhaynes 5y agoCan't ignore the usage rates, too. How many Mac users keep regular backups by separately buying/setting up/maintaining extra equipment vs. how many iPhone/iPad users keep regular backups by opting into iCloud Backup at the prompt during setup? I don't have statistics on it but it seems very likely that the latter model gets hugely more uptake.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y ago> They replaced it with iCloud. iCloud storage is currently just a syncing service, not an incremental backup service like Time Machine. So why doesn't Apple let you point Time Machine at an iCloud drive? Nobody knows! It makes no sense. If Apple let you point Time Machine at an iCloud drive for a small monthly fee, they would get millions of new signups overnight.