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I always though that Apple should’ve acquired the company and offer Time Machine in the cloud. The seamlessness of the TM is at another level, but the missing c
by doh 5y ago
I always though that Apple should’ve acquired the company and offer Time Machine in the cloud. The seamlessness of the TM is at another level, but the missing cloud backup made it always somewhat limited option.
Apple has a history of buying “feature” companies (the famous feedback Jobs gave to Houston on Dropbox).
Apple eventually built this itself for iOS and it doesn’t seem like MacOS has much priority these days.
- simonh 5y agoiCloud Drive on the Mac with desktop and documents sync is pretty decent. I know it's not the same as full system backup. Yep, cloud Time Machine would be nice but probably a bit expensive, but meanwhile I'm happy with Backblaze. The iOS client is dead handy.
- doh 5y agoTrue on all. I think that’s where Apple eventually landed. The value of restoring the full file system is low in a rigid environment like the MacOS (they nudge you to use specific folder structure, etc). It would’ve been interesting if DropBox would sell to Apple back in the days, what would’ve the OSs looked like today.