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Apple’s built-in backup solution is called Time Machine. It was dogshit when it launched a decade ago, never got more reliable despite many OS releases, and is

Apple’s built-in backup solution is called Time Machine. It was dogshit when it launched a decade ago, never got more reliable despite many OS releases, and is still largely dogshit. The author of the blog makes an application that is very good at making backups on macOS and now their app is broken due to skullduggery by Apple. So the issue is threefold: a) Apple further turning MascOS into iPhone, b) this harms competition, and c) users ultimately suffer because Apple has no incentive to get better.

threeseed 2y ago
Or it's the same thing that has been happening for 15 years. People install .0, .1 or .2 release. Complain about bugs. Bugs get fixed. Repeat.
- nrabulinski 2y ago
  Some might think this is what the beta is for but I guess not. Let’s excuse the multi trillion dollar company for releasing broken software, each release being more broken than the previous one
  - dwaite 2y ago
    That Super Duper post didn't indicate whether they filed feedback during the beta or not.
- randyrand 2y ago
  It's gotten so bad I normally wait until 0.7 (final release).
lxgr 2y ago
Time Machine is really quite good, all things considered. I’d be very happy if Apple were to bring it to iOS, but obviously they’ll never cannibalise their iCloud storage subscription business.
- RandomThoughts3 2y ago
  > Time Machine is really quite good, all things considered. This comment page is full of examples of very real issue with Time Machine which will bite you at some point if you use it. It’s not quite good. It’s bug riddled and Apple refuses to actually do the work to fix it because they would rather you buy iCloud.
  - lxgr 2y ago
    Backup systems are both complex and very very critical to many people – of course there will be somebody running into every conceivable edge case. But good or bad only make sense as evaluations relative to something. In my case, that's Linux (I never felt comfortable with any backup solution I looked at there while I was using it, especially not the Ubuntu built-in ones; maybe things have changed with btrfs now) and Windows, which doesn't even try (and all the third party ones I've looked at seem extremely shady in one way or another). The fact that macOS has a pretty solid one out of the box is more than I'm expecting from an OS at this point. I've restored from it a couple of times, both the entire system and individual files, and it did exactly what I expected of it.
    - griomnib 2y ago
      It appears “solid”, but the only test of a backup system is disaster recovery and I’ve had to attempt to get files from Time Machine drives before and it is hell. iCloud Drive is also a bit iffy, it does a lot of weird shit with file meta data that can screw up file processing.

threeseed 2y ago

Or it's the same thing that has been happening for 15 years. People install .0, .1 or .2 release. Complain about bugs. Bugs get fixed. Repeat.

nrabulinski 2y ago
Some might think this is what the beta is for but I guess not. Let’s excuse the multi trillion dollar company for releasing broken software, each release being more broken than the previous one
- dwaite 2y ago
  That Super Duper post didn't indicate whether they filed feedback during the beta or not.
randyrand 2y ago
It's gotten so bad I normally wait until 0.7 (final release).

lxgr 2y ago

Time Machine is really quite good, all things considered. I’d be very happy if Apple were to bring it to iOS, but obviously they’ll never cannibalise their iCloud storage subscription business.

RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Time Machine is really quite good, all things considered. This comment page is full of examples of very real issue with Time Machine which will bite you at some point if you use it. It’s not quite good. It’s bug riddled and Apple refuses to actually do the work to fix it because they would rather you buy iCloud.
- lxgr 2y ago
  Backup systems are both complex and very very critical to many people – of course there will be somebody running into every conceivable edge case. But good or bad only make sense as evaluations relative to something. In my case, that's Linux (I never felt comfortable with any backup solution I looked at there while I was using it, especially not the Ubuntu built-in ones; maybe things have changed with btrfs now) and Windows, which doesn't even try (and all the third party ones I've looked at seem extremely shady in one way or another). The fact that macOS has a pretty solid one out of the box is more than I'm expecting from an OS at this point. I've restored from it a couple of times, both the entire system and individual files, and it did exactly what I expected of it.
  - griomnib 2y ago
    It appears “solid”, but the only test of a backup system is disaster recovery and I’ve had to attempt to get files from Time Machine drives before and it is hell. iCloud Drive is also a bit iffy, it does a lot of weird shit with file meta data that can screw up file processing.