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I guess tim333 means "asking if a drive should be used for Time Machine when it's first plugged" is pure marketing, which seems fair to me.
by lultimouomo 12y ago
I guess tim333 means "asking if a drive should be used for Time Machine when it's first plugged" is pure marketing, which seems fair to me.
- arrrg 12y agoThat’s non-sensical. The central problem with backups is that no one makes them but everyone should, without a question. That’s an attempt to solve that problem, even going so far as to purposefully annoy people! (Remember, everything is a trade-off and usually you will never be able to make everyone always happy.) This dialog box is the furthest thing from a marketing gimmick I can imagine. It’s comically far removed from that. (And, I think, exactly the right move. Yeah, people who know about backups already probably will not use Time Machine – but for everyone else that is pretty great!)
- lultimouomo 12y agoWould you dare an (unverifiable) guess at the percentage of people who plugged in a USB drive to copy some files and were enlightened to use it as a backup unit by the Time Machine dialog? If I had to, gun to the head, I'd say that no one ever was. I seem to remember that Windows pops up a baloon in the system tray every once in a while nagging you to configure the system for regular backups. That seems much more sensible.