Actually, iCloud is much more in-tune with that manner of thinking than say Google's cloud services.
With iCloud, media like your photos is sync'd via iCloud but PhotoStream only includes 30 days of photos - you are still expected to file away photos you want to keep via iPhoto. That's just one example but that thinking extends throughout the entire implementation - it's not a 'giant hard drive in the sky'. Your basis rings true: if you care about something, you should have a backup. Don't trust any cloud provider to always do the right thing 100% of the time. On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: > That raises an interesting issue. I assume, Apple being Apple, that when we > all sign up for iCloud the EULA will force us to sign away any damages/loss > rights incurred due to such "glitches". I can easily see it: "Sorry, we have > no record of you ever owning XXX or YYY. Please repurchase your desired > content..." > > Call me paranoid, but consigning all my digital content to a large, foreign, > amorphous, ethereal thing like a "cloud" gives me the jeebies. I too keep > private copies of everything I deem valuable so that whether it resides in a > "cloud" or on my local machine is only a matter of access convenience for me, > and not a question of ownership or permanence. _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
