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Would this be the Steve Jobs who ditched floppy disk drives when people still had piles of disks around, and Firewire ports when people still had plenty of devi

• msabalau 14y ago
  If I buy a new computer, I hopefully understand what features it has and lacks. It is another thing altogether for a operating system upgrade to purposefully destroy user data.
  • 5teev 14y ago
    As the article indicates, the data wasn't destroyed, just obscured. Maybe equivalent for some users, but somewhat overstating things, especially here.
    • vacri 14y ago
      Even with expert advice, she had to manually recreate the data, going from snippets she could see. Surely that counts as 'destroyed' or at least 'damaged'.
• chc 14y ago
  Dropping a feature is one thing. Silently making a user's data disappear is something else altogether.