I recently converted to iPhone and one of my largest frustrations has been icloud. As people keep reminding me, it’s apparently a “sync” service rather than a “backup” service, which means that you cannot control the behavior of when things get uploaded/downloaded, data versioning, or even access the data in a file-like way.
This left me really puzzled who the users are that are requesting 12TB of storage. I see such huge storage requirements as firmly in “power user” territory, yet the service lacks the administration tools that I would think power users would expect. IDK, maybe it’s just me, I would just be very nervous uploading multiple TB of precious photos/videos into a service that has no concept of versioning. I’m using Google Photos as well as OneDrive in addition to iCloud because it feels difficult to trust.
This left me really puzzled who the users are that are requesting 12TB of storage. I see such huge storage requirements as firmly in “power user” territory, yet the service lacks the administration tools that I would think power users would expect. IDK, maybe it’s just me, I would just be very nervous uploading multiple TB of precious photos/videos into a service that has no concept of versioning. I’m using Google Photos as well as OneDrive in addition to iCloud because it feels difficult to trust.