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joshspankit on Sept 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

> Pretty much everybody agrees that you need to backup your cloud storage as well as your local computer, and Apple even backs up your i-devices to the cloud

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Apple say that you need to back up your Apple Cloud data.

> I would argue that it is exactly in line with Apple's brand identity.

I’m not following you. Can you explain what you mean by that?

8fingerlouie on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

> I’m not following you. Can you explain what you mean by that?

Usually when Apple does something, they make it so it "just works" and usually stays out of the way of the user. To bake iCloud backups into Time Machine would do just that, backup your cloud data without bugging you.

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